Resisting Hitler

Alternate 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.

First Sentence

On February 15, 1943, sometime after nine in the evening, a green police wagon left Charlottenburg's Women's Prison in Berlin.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography.

Other Editions

• Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red OrchestraOxford University Press2000-01-01
• Resisting HitlerEbsco Publishing2000-01-01
• Resisting HitlerOxford University Press2000-01-01
• Resisting HitlerOxford University Press, USA2002-05-23