Resisting Hitler

Resisting Hitler2000
About this book
"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.
Details
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 516
- ISBN-13
- 9780199923885
- OL Work ID
- OL225327W
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945BiographyAnti-Nazi movementExecutions and executionersSecret serviceUnderground movementsAmericansEnglish teachersHistoryRote Kapelle (Resistance group)Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943English teachers -- Germany -- BiographyExecutions and executioners -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Soviet UnionWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movementsAmericans -- Germany -- BiographyAnti-Nazi movement -- GermanyHarnack, adolf von, 1851-1930