Resisting Hitler

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.

subjects: World War, 1939-1945,  Biography,  Anti-Nazi movement,  Executions and executioners,  Secret service,  Underground movements,  Americans,  English teachers,  History,  Rote Kapelle (Resistance group),  Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943,  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,  Harnack, adolf von, 1851-1930,  Americans, germany,  Germany, biography,  World war, 1939-1945, secret service, germany,  World war, 1939-1945, underground movements,  Germany, history, 20th century,  New York Times reviewed,  War Underground movements,  Tweede Wereldoorlog,  Verzet,  Spionage,  Rote Kapelle,  Vrouwen

People: Mildred Harnack-Fish (1902-1943)

Places: Germany,  Soviet Union

Times: 20th century