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December 14, 1942 - On the night before his trial, Arvid Harnack wrote a moving letter to his wife Mildred. Arvid's thoughts were on Wisconsin where this love story began. It was returned to the Harnack family by a former cellmate of Mildred's in 1952. Narrated by Ulrich Rosenhagen.
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A closer look at the anti-Nazi movement and the influence of the University of Wisconsin.
November 2009 presentation by author Anne Nelson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Donald Heath, Jr., gives us a first-hand look at the Harnacks' daily lives in Berlin.
Nicole Hutchings details how Harnack relatives described the story of Mildred and Arvid.
Milwaukee's Art Heitzer championed efforts to recognize Mildred Fish-Harnack in Wisconsin.
Andreas Sander, a Gestapo Prison expert on the Harnacks' incarceration and interrogation.
Johannes Tuchel, an authority on the German resistance provides historical perspective.
