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Resisting HitlerShareen Blair Brysac
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Resisting Hitler

505 pagesFirst published 20004 editions
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"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…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionOxford University Press, USA20025129780195152401
EditionOxford University Press20004989780195132694
EditionOxford University Press2000—9781280833359
EditionEbsco Publishing2000—9780195351026
World War, 1939-1945BiographyAnti-Nazi movementExecutions and executionersSecret serviceUnderground movementsAmericansEnglish teachers