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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticHeitzer, Art
Title, AnalyticHitler Ordered Death of Mildred Fish Harnack: The Milwaukee Native Was the Only American Woman Executed for Being a Member of the Resistance in Nazi Germany in World War II
Journal TitlePerspektiven
Date of PublicationFall 2006
Volume ID5
Issue ID4
Location in Work6-7, ill.
AbstractMildred Fish (1902-1943) was of English ancestry, but grew up in the heavily German immigrant west side of Milwaukee. She married Arvid Harnack, a German lawyer and economist, and went to Germany with him when he returned in 1929. Both began working for one of the most significant early resistance groups inside the Third Reich. She and her husband were arrested in late 1942; her husband was executed shortly thereafter for treason, and Mildred was at first imprisoned, but later re-tried and sentenced to death in 1943.
NotesGoethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsWorld War, 1939-1945 -- German Americans/ National Socialism/ Harnack, Mildred Fish/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Harnack, Mildred Fish, 1902-1943