Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), September 10th, 2000
During World War II only one American woman was executed for treason in Nazi Germany.
Mildred Harnack, a Milwaukee native and a UW-Madison graduate, was guillotined in 1943.
Following her graduation from UW-Madison in 1925, the former Mildred Fish earned a master's degree, taught in the university's English department and wrote for the Wisconsin State Journal and the Wisconsin Literary Magazine.
She and her husband, Arvid Harnack, a German student who had come to Madison to study labor history and who was a member of the Bonhoeffer family, moved to Germany in 1932 and, with the rise of Ad...
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