On this day, 16 September 1902, Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance martyr Mildred Fish-Harnack was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She and her husband were part of a resistance circle, which alongside interconnected resistance networks was dubbed the “Red Orchestra” by the Gestapo. Fish-Harnack recruited many other resistance activists, helped distribute anti-fascist leaflets and pamphlets and documented Nazi atrocities. She was arrested in 1942 with 119 others and sentenced to six years’ hard labour. However, dictator Adolf Hitler had her re-tried and sentenced to death. She was beheaded in 1943.
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