Mildred Fish-Harnack :af:

was an American-German 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 National Socialists' 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.

The Red Orchestra :flag-su:

The Red Orchestra was one of the most famous resistance and espionage networks operating in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Rather than a single organisation, the Red Orchestra is best understood as a collection of resistance networks operating in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. It consisted of three main branches, the Berlin network, a network in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and a group operating out of neutral Switzerland that included the ‘Lucy Ring’ of spies.

The name ‘Red Orchestra’ was created by German counter-intelligence, who described resistance radio operators as ‘pianists’ while investigating these networks.

At the core of the Red Orchestra was the spy ring established by Leopold Trepper, a Polish communist and agent of the Red Army Intelligence, codenamed ‘Otto’. He set up a spy network that covered France, the Netherlands and Belgium, which successfully gathered intelligence on the German war effort, including industrial production and Nazi troop movements. Importantly, Trepper provided the Soviets with information regarding the Nazis’ planned invasion of Russia, though his warnings fell on deaf ears in Moscow.

Perhaps the most effective part of the Red Orchestra was the group operating out of neutral Switzerland. Known as ‘The Red Three’ and headed by the Soviet military intelligence agent Alexander Radó.

Remarkably, the Red Orchestra also had a network of antifascists operating right under the Nazis’ noses in Berlin. By 1940/41 a group of around 150 people, including journalists, students, artists and civil servants, were organised by Arvid and Mildred Harnack, and Harrro and Libertas Schulze-Boysen, into a network of resistance in Berlin. The group took enormous risks to distribute anti-Nazi leaflets, letters and posters. They also helped persecuted people and documented Nazi crimes. They passed any information of military importance to the Soviet Union.


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  • Rem [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Thought the mods had just had enough and nuked the site.

    Have fun reading hundreds of "closing the site as a joke was not okay" copypastas.

  • FailureToLaunch [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    36 hours with no power and single digit temps. Had to sneak in a homeless shelter at a church.

    Texas delenda est

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    New chapo episode reminded me that stimulus checks are based on tax returns for like 2019 I think. Back when most people had jobs or higher paying ones. Meaning the last year and 2 months means fucking nothing.

    Vanguard party and revolution when?

  • quartz242 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Its gonna get bad in Texas, just found out that I may not have power until Friday. Hoping I don't lose water too

  • Quimby [any, any]
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    4 years ago

    My partner had multiple autistic meltdowns today, which caused me to have a meltdown, which caused her to have a meltdown....

    never a dull moment in our house.

  • wasbappin [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Thousands of people are going to freeze to death in Texas and chuds are already blaming windmills when it's not true.

  • post_trains [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Following a power outage, a Fred Meyer grocery in Portland is throwing out perishable foods they can't really sell anymore, instead of just looking the other way and letting people dumpster dive all this otherwise completely unspoiled and safe foods they sent the store security guard to shoo off the crowd and eventually called the cops :amerikkka-clap:

    And the cops aren't wearing masks because PPB are continuing their quest to prove how much of a shitty little baby it's possible to be.

  • sailorfish [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    One of my fanfics got translated into Chinese and now has been made into a podfic (like a little audiobook). I'm so proud and also embarrassed hahaha

    • vertexarray [any]
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      4 years ago

      That rules, that's amazing. What fandom are you working in that that can happen?

      • sailorfish [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Thanks! :D It's Hades (the video game), it's an Achilles-centric one-shot and I guess people are into that haha

        • Madcat [any]
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          4 years ago

          yo do you have a link if you're alright with sharing? i'd really love to read that

          • sailorfish [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Sorry wanted to reply and then chapo crashed haha. I'll DM you!

            • Madcat [any]
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              4 years ago

              haha yeah same here. i wasn't sure if the message even got through lol

      • sailorfish [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        It is full of Pining but not horny. My fanfic specialty is mostly writing non-horny fics that are full of so much angsty pining tension that I nevertheless get appreciative, horny comments 🥰

  • ThatsNotPraxis [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Literally woke up because my apartment is below freezing in Texas. Pretty certain my pet fishes also are starting to die because I haven’t had power in over 24 hours and the water filter hasn’t been on to filter water at all. :angery:

  • Snackuleata [any]
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    4 years ago

    Living in Texas rn. Somehow my house never lost power, so I have a bunch of neighbors over. I hope everyone is doing well tonight!

      • Snackuleata [any]
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        4 years ago

        Very large polar vortex. The infrastructure down here isn't built to handle freezing temperatures (and it's America, so the infrastructure's shit anyway), so things like electricity are failing. Of course, without electricity there's no heating, which makes the whole freezing temperatures thing worse.

  • clover [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    There’s a thread on r/conspiracy lamenting the end of creativity in music and movies :jokah:

    Almost zero comments about capitalism rewarding low risk projects and a bunch blaming the Radical Trans Agenda :illuminati:

    • ThrowyMcThrowface [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Somebody I know can confirm this from their wheat-pasting runs. There's a lot of good advice in here. Particularly the bit about using a bicycle for mobility.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Thinking of a funny bit where I get arrested for streaming a movie from 1986 on my PC without a VPN and I get lost in the prison system like some Kafkaesque nightmare and become a lifer would be a fitting end for me.