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   From: bjfoster@yahoo.com   
      
   Mildred was born Mildred Fish in Milwaukee USA on September 16th, 1902.   
   In 1926, she married Arvid Harnack, whom she met while studying   
   literature at Wisconsin University. In 1929, she and her husband moved   
   to Berlin where she was a lecturer at the university. They became   
   friends with Martha Dodd and were often invited to receptions at the   
   American Embassy where she met many influential Germans. When the war   
   started, Arvid and Mildred supported the resistance movement against the   
   Nazi regime through their friendship with Harro Schulze-Boysen and the   
   spy ring known as "The Red Orchestra". On September 7th, 1942, she was   
   arrested and taken to Gestapo headquarters. At her trial in December   
   1942, she was sentenced to 6 years in prison for "helping to prepare   
   high treason and espionage". On December 21st, Hitler rejected the   
   sentence and ordered another trial which took place in January 1943 and   
   resulted in a death sentence.   
      
   At 6.57 p.m. on February the 16th, 1943, Mildred Harnack was   
   guillotined, becoming the only American woman to be executed for treason   
   in World War 2. (By September 1943, all 51 members of the “Red   
   Orchestra” had died, two by suicide, 8 on the gallows and 41   
   guillotined, including Harro Schulze-Boysen and his wife Libertas  on   
   the evening of the 22nd of December 1942).   
      
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