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Mildred Fish-Harnack

Story of Milwaukee Native Active in Nazi Resistance Finally Told in US (VIDEO)

By Jspace Staff on 11/1/2011 at 5:45 PM

Categories: United States, Art

Milwaukee native Mildred Fish-Harnack, the only American woman executed on direct orders from Hitler, is honored in a Jewish Museum exhibit and hour-long documentary this month. The obscure story of a UW-Madison student and Wisconsin State Journal reporter who was active in the Berlin resistance movement during Hitler’s rise to power is finally coming to American audiences. On November 7, WPT will premiere Joel Waldinger’s hour-long documentary “Wisconsin’s Nazi Resistance: The Mildred …More