The Lesson of Mildred Fish Harnack by Trav S.D.

I first learned the story of Mildred Fish Harnack (1902-1943) with Erik Larson's 2011 book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. Harnack was the only American to be executed on the direct orders of Adolph Hitler. That's the lede; any article about the woman needs to foreground […]

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