This gripping and heartbreaking 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 Harnack's group, which the
Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra.
Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16,
1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--the only
American woman executed as an underground conspirator. Yet as World
War II ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism and
self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the
democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist
East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives, can the
full story be told.
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. It describes the life of a Wisconsin
girl whose intelligence and beauty captivated a visiting scholar,
Arvid Harnack, a member of a distinguished German academic family.
It explores for the first time the complex familial connections of
the Harnacks, Delbrucks and Bonhoeffers, twelve of whom were
executed for resistance acts. And it details Mildred's friendship
with Martha Dodd, daughter of FDR's ambassador to the Third Reich,
whose affair with a Soviet diplomat led to his death.
Moments before her death, Mildred said, "I have loved Germany so
much." In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman,
Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial
resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a
Soviet espionage network. The extraordinary story of Mildred
Fish-Harnack's ten dramatic years of resisting the Nazi regime also
reminds today's readers of the hard moral choices that beset
opponents of a ruthless totalitarian dictatorship."
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