E64: Mildred Fish-Harnack, part 2
Working Class History
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The History of the Guillotine
Mildred harnock was one of many women executed by the guillotine in Germany. She and other resistance activists were hanged or shot after being found guilty at a political trial. The head of the anatomical department at the university berlin had a secret arrangement with the director of flutsey prison to deliver women's bodies to his laboratory where he dissected them. He kept a list of the women whom he dissected, and mildred was on this as were many others in her group. In 18 71, during socialist uprising known as the paris commune, mutinous national guard troops seized the local guillotine,. smashed it to pieces and burned it to the applause of
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