Month by month throughout the U.S., millions of college graduates follow the careers of their classmates in their alumni bulletins. For the most part the notices are terse and wholesome: "Mary Smith, '42, had a daughter last month." But last week members of the class of 1925 read a different kind of story in the Wisconsin Alumnus. Pieced together from details unearthed by investigators for the U.S. Military Government in Germany, it told what had happened to their classmate Mildred Fish.
Mildred was a teacher at Wisconsin when she met Arvid Harnack, a German graduate student. They were married in...
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