![]() ![]() “All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days,” by Rebecca Donner, presents itself as a biography of Harnack, Donner’s great-great-aunt, an American woman executed in 1943 for being a member of the German resistance to the Nazis during World War II. “It would make a wonderful novel,” he told a collaborator of Harnack’s while deciding the man’s punishment, “if it weren’t so sad.” The Nazi interrogator assigned to crack down on the resistance circle she organized with her husband was surprised by what he found. As she gathered intelligence and raised awareness of Nazi crimes, she worried that she was not working on her dissertation on English literature. It is difficult to imagine who might play her in a movie. ![]() ![]() Bookish and sometimes shy, she expressed her bravery through tenacity rather than swagger. It was not only her Americanness that made Mildred Harnack an unlikely member of the German resistance. ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Rebecca Donner ![]()
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