Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

Hello everyone, welcome back to the history hit Warfare Podcast. I'm your host James

Rogers and in this episode well how do I describe it? We've all been

intrigued by our family histories and sometimes we'll be with pride when we find out what our ancestors were able to achieve.

This is certainly the case in this episode. We have Rebecca Donna, who has just written a fascinating new book about her great great aunt Mildred Harnock.

This book is flying off the shelves at the moment as received rave reviews in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,

and I'm pretty sure this is going to be a future bestseller.

And it's understandable why.

Rebecca's great-great aunt was born and raised in the United States.

She enrolled in a PhD program in Berlin at the age of 26.

But as she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. From as early as 1932, she began to hold secret

meetings in her apartment with a small band of political activists. By 1940, that small band had grown into the largest underground resistance movement in Berlin.

Now Rebecca found all this out as she was researching her family history, she who had a kind of historical detective and what

she found out about her heroic relative was that she was actually the only American who

had a leadership role in the German resistance.

She helped Jews escape, she plotted acts of sabotage,

and she wrote leaflets denouncing Hitler's regime.

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