Hermann Stieve
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Hermann Philipp Rudolf Stieve was a German physician, anatomist and histologist. Following his medical studies, he served in the German Army during World War I and became interested in the effect of s
Plötzensee Prison, where Stieve obtained bodies daily
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Mildred Fish Harnack, executed for espionage in 1943. Her body is the only one of the 182 Stieve used for research whose burial location is known
Mildred Harnack
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Mildred Elizabeth Harnack was an American literary historian, translator, and member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime. After marrying Arvid Harnack, she moved to Germany in 1929, where
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…obtained 70 years later and as of 2018 these documents are held in Memorial Site for the German Resistance in Berlin. Harnack's Wisconsin-born wife, Mildred, originally seemed to escape this fate when she received a six-year sentence for her espionage activities. It was overturned on Hitler's direct order…
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Commemorative stamp honouring Mildred Harnack and her husband Arvid issued by the Deutsche Post of the GDR in 1964
Commemorative plaque at the Peter A. Silbermann School/Friedrich Ebert Secondary School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Memorial plaque at the Berlin building where the Harnacks lived, 61 Hasenheide, Berlin-Neukölln