Now that's dedication to a cause...I have read much of the Red Orchestra in recent years...When Fish-Harnack was guillotined on Feb. 16, 1943, she became the only American killed on a direct order from the German dictator....Ben
Now that's dedication to a cause...I have read much of the Red Orchestra in recent years...When Fish-Harnack was guillotined on Feb. 16, 1943, she became the only American killed on a direct order from the German dictator....Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
This is all new information to me. Yet, I like the way it puts real faces and lives together for us to observe
It's amazing how many people tried to bury information spreading about the participant's heroic efforts because they were tied to Communism. What matters is they were against Fascism. Hence, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
Thank you---this is my introduction to Fish-Harnack----may she rest in peace![]()
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
As an aside, the guillotine was the state approved method of execution in Hitler's Germany...It's still the most foolproof and painless method of commonly used execution methods I can think of...Way too messy though......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...