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The powerful and true story of Mildred Harnack, the brave woman at the heart of Germany's underground resistance to the Nazis. Today, it's 1932 and an 11 year old boy is visiting his American tutor, but all is not what it seems. Kelly Burke reads.

Mildred Harnack's remarkable story is told by her great-great-niece, Rebecca Donner, who draws on diaries, letters, notes smuggled out of German prisons and de-classified intelligence reports to reconstruct the story of a woman of extraordinary bravery and compassion. In the early 1930s, living in Berlin, Mildred and her husband, Arvid, are horrified by Hitler's rapid and meteoric rise to power. Both find themselves compelled to act and take extraordinary and audacious risks to pass secrets to the Allies as World War II looms. But soon the Gestapo start to close in, and a high price is exacted.

Rebecca Donner is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Sunset Terrace, and Burnout, a graphic novel about ecoterrorism. Her essays, reportage, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and Guernica.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard