The title of Rebecca Donner’s startling new book is a line from a volume of Goethe’s poems smuggled into the cell of Mildred Harnack, an American woman chained in a Berlin prison and awaiting the death penalty by the Nazi regime. . On February 16, 1943, the day she was to be taken to the …

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