Resisting Hitler
Subtitle: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
By: Shareen Blair Brysac.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943; Rote Kapelle (Resistance group); English teachers -- Germany -- Biography; Executions and executioners -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Soviet Union; World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements; Americans -- Germany -- Biography; Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra
Description: "This narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred and her husband, Arvid Harnack, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the Harnacks' group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra." "Resisting Hitler is based on extensive interviews with Fish-Harnack family, friends, and associates; it draws on personal correspondence and formerly classified German and Soviet KGB files and recently released CIA and FBI dossiers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-474) and index.
"The life and death of an American woman in Nazi Germany"--Jacket.