All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

by Rebecca Donner

Her family is my family. Three generations separate us. She preferred anonymity, so I will whisper her name: Mildred Harnack.

To be an American in Berlin is to turn a blind eye to atrocity.

In all the frequent troubles of our days A God gave compensation—more his praise In looking sky- and heavenward as duty In sunshine and in virtue and in beauty.