31, 2018 by the city of Madison Arts Commission. The black granite obelisk was designed by John Durbrow, a longtime Manitowoc-area resident and retired professor of architecture at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology. ![]() “Mildred,” a sculpture by John Durbrow, was dedicated by the city of Madison in her honor July 12 in Marshall Park, 2101 Allen Boulevard in Madison. In the Cold War years after World War II, Fish-Harnack’s name and legacy were not honored in the U.S., because she and her husband were believed to have been connected with Communism. But the smearing of her name and the burying of her story has become part of why she’s being recognized today. The punishment continued long after her death. Her story has gotten somewhat lost in the vast horrors of the Third Reich. Fish-Harnack became the only American civilian to be executed on the direct order of Hitler. ![]() She was sentenced to six years of hard labor for the crimes of treason and espionage but that wasn’t enough for Adolf Hitler. Those were the last words of Mildred Fish-Harnack before the blade of the guillotine fell. Arvid and Mildred Fish-Harnack sit on the grass in Saalfeld, Germany, in 1930.
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