Word: harnack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mildred was a teacher at Wisconsin when she met Arvid Harnack, a German graduate student. They were married in 1930 and left for Germany, where Arvid got a job in the Economics Ministry. When the Nazis came to power Arvid held on to his job, but he and Mildred together joined the underground. Then in 1942 Mildred's family in the U.S. received a hastily scrawled postcard. "Don't write," it said. "Never forget me." Soon afterward Harnack was executed by strangulation at the end of a foot-long rope...