All the Frequent Troubles of Our DaysBorn and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated