Execution Tales Chapter 51 Part 10 Revision 2
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Mildred Harnack
Midred 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 & her husband moved to Berlin where she became a lecturer at the University. They were often invited receptions at the American Embassy where she met many influential Germans.
When the war started Arvid & Mildred supported the resistance movement against the Nazi regime through their friendship with Haro Schulze-Boysen & the “Red Orchestra”.
On September 7th 1942 she was arrested & taken to Gestapo Head Quarters. At her trial in December 1942 she was sentenced to six years in prison for “Helping to prepare high treason & espionage”.
On December 21st Hitler rejected the sentence & ordered another trial which took place in January 1943 & resulted in a death sentence.
At 6.57 PM February 16th 1943 Mildred Harnack was guillotined, becoming the only American woman to be executed for treason in World War 11 [By September 1943 all fifty one members of the “Red Orchestra” had died, two by suicide, eight on the gallows & forty one beheaded]
Midred 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 & her husband moved to Berlin where she became a lecturer at the University. They were often invited receptions at the American Embassy where she met many influential Germans.
When the war started Arvid & Mildred supported the resistance movement against the Nazi regime through their friendship with Haro Schulze-Boysen & the “Red Orchestra”.
On September 7th 1942 she was arrested & taken to Gestapo Head Quarters. At her trial in December 1942 she was sentenced to six years in prison for “Helping to prepare high treason & espionage”.
On December 21st Hitler rejected the sentence & ordered another trial which took place in January 1943 & resulted in a death sentence.
At 6.57 PM February 16th 1943 Mildred Harnack was guillotined, becoming the only American woman to be executed for treason in World War 11 [By September 1943 all fifty one members of the “Red Orchestra” had died, two by suicide, eight on the gallows & forty one beheaded]
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