After Hitler’s rise to power, Mildred and Arvid Harnack founded an underground group that helped imperiled Jews, assisted forced laborers, documented and archived Nazi acts of violence, especially in occupied areas in the East, and distributed anti-Hitler pamphlets. They were both caught and executed.

After Hitler’s rise to power, Mildred and Arvid Harnack founded an underground group that helped imperiled Jews, assisted forced laborers, documented and archived Nazi acts of violence, especially in occupied areas in the East, and distributed anti-Hitler pamphlets. They were both caught and executed.