Mildred Fish-Harnack was an American historian and anti-fascist executed by the Nazi government on this day in 1943.
Together with her husband, Fish-Harnack brought together a discussion circle which debated political perspectives on the time after the Nazis' expected downfall. From these meetings arose what the Gestapo called the "Red Orchestra" resistance group. Beginning in 1940, the group was in contact with Soviet agents, trying to thwart the forthcoming German attack upon the Soviet Union. Fish-Harnack even sent the Soviets information about the forthcoming Operation Barbarossa.
On September 7th, Arvid Harnack and Mildred Fish-Harnack were arrested while on a weekend outing. She was executed on this day in 1943 by beheading. Her last words were purported to have been: "Ich habe Deutschland auch so geliebt" ("I loved Germany so much as well"). She is the only member of the Red Orchestra whose burial site is known, as well as the only American woman executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler.
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surreal how there's no rule in the universe saying "things have to be bad on earth" and yet things are bad. things could be good, the cookie just didn't crumble that way.
like, our version of the "Intelligent Life Living On a Planet" Experience™ is surely not the only option the spinney lottery wheel thing could have landed on.
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we could have evolved to be just-took-shrooms empathetic all the time. i've never taken shrooms but i hear it makes you empathetic.
It makes me want to cuddle and also cover my face
This is why I'm interested in metaphysics, WTF is all this shit even
Won't have survived very long if you couldn't feel pain. People who have this condition have shorter and more dangerous lives. It's evolution's fault.
If you can't experience pain you tend to neglect injuries.
A little pain goes a long way though.
I like to think that somewhere in a galaxy far away a vast civilisation of communist space-aliens are having a hell of a good time.