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Apr 2022
47m 42s

E64: Mildred Fish-Harnack, part 2

WORKING CLASS HISTORY
About this episode
Concluding part of our double podcast episode about Mildred Fish-Harnack, the US-born woman at the centre of the underground resistance to Nazism in Berlin during World War II. In conversation with Rebecca Donner, Mildred’s great great niece and author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days.
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In this part we cover a terrible blunder which transpired, repression, aftermath, the response of Allied powers, and the historical legacy.
Get Mildred's book here: https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9780316561693
Full acknowledgements, photos, sources, more information and eventually a transcript on the homepage for this double episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e63-64-mildred-fish-harnack/
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Stone Lawson. Episode graphic courtesy of the Donner family. Our theme tune is Bella Ciao, thanks for permission to use it from Dischi del Sole. You can purchase it here. Or stream it here. This episode was edited by Jesse French.
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