<p><b>SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK</b><br><br>Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment - a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.<br><br> She recruited Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. During a hastily convened trial at the <i>Reichskriegsgericht</i> - the Reich Court-Martial - a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On 16
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Mildred Harnack skulle egentligen bli litteraturhistoriker, och lämnade USA för studier i Tyskland. I Berlin bevittnade hon förskräckt nazisternas marsch mot makten. Det som började med några hemliga möten med andra regimkritiker växte sedan till...
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Rebecca Donners omfattende arkivforskning i Tyskland, Russland, England og USA, samt hennes slektskap til Mildred og tilgangen til familiearkivene har gjort dette til et forbløffende verk. Ved å flette sammen brev, dagbokoppføringer, notater smuglet...
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