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Mildred Fish Harnack.

Mildred Fish Harnack was born as the daugther of the merchant W.C. Fish in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 16th, After her father’s death the family moved to Washington .

Oxford University Press, New York, May Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor. Reichstag fire; emergency decree suspending civil rights granted by the Weimar Constitution. With some of her students, participated in a discussion group with economic and political ideas from America and the Soviet Union, led by her husband Arvid; with her husband, frequent guests at the American Embassy; edited a book column in Berlin Topics a local English language newspaper with Martha Dodd, daughter of the American ambassador; published articles in German for Berliner Tageblatt and Die Literatur until , when publication required prior consent of the Nazi party; made contacts with men and women who were critical of the Nazi regime, recruited collaborators for the resistance; served as courier for her husband and others in their contacts with Soviet agents.

June, Nazi invasion of Poland. October Arvid booked for her an open reservation by ship to America.

Mildred Elizabeth Harnack (née Fish; September 16, – February 16, ) was an American literary historian, translator, and member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime.

Arvid Harnack. Doctor of Law. Rockefeller Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Madison. March June 21, Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; Soviet citizens in Germany arrested.