The untold story of Mildred Harnack, an American woman who was the leader of the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany, a role she was later executed for.
Mildred Harnack was a leader of the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany. That she was a woman distinguished her from many of her contemporaries in the male-dominated leadership of the German Resistance. That she was an American was even more notable. Born and raised in Milwaukee, she risked her life to fight a murderous dictator on foreign soil, a feat of enduring historical significance. Contemporary historians identify her as the only American in the German Resistance, yet she remains almost entirely unknown.
Mildred was twenty-six when she moved to Berlin and witnessed first-hand the horrors of Hitler's ascendancy. For nearly a decade--from 1933 until 1942--she devoted herself to defeating him. She wrote and distributed leaflets exposing Nazi atrocities to incite civil disobedience, helped Jews and political dissidents escape Germany, and delivered top-secret military intelligence about the Nazi regime to the Allies.
Based on years of original research and exclusive interviews with those who knew Mildred personally, Rebecca Donner, Mildred's great-great niece, at last tells Mildred's remarkable and heroic story.
