February 22, 1943
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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
@JohnAutry I think older people might have watched the movie about Sophie Scholl (see link below).
Sophie and her brother Hans were absolute heroes. I also admire their parents. If I remember correctly, her fiancé married her sister, Elisabeth, who dedicated her life to the legacy of her siblings.
https://youtu.be/lIc5uDnvWTI -
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@JohnAutry I think older people might have watched the movie about Sophie Scholl (see link below).
Sophie and her brother Hans were absolute heroes. I also admire their parents. If I remember correctly, her fiancé married her sister, Elisabeth, who dedicated her life to the legacy of her siblings.
https://youtu.be/lIc5uDnvWTIThat was released in 2005!!
But fr we watched some of the 1982 Die Weisse Rose in class in high school.
You know, from 23 years *before* that one.
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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
@JohnAutry Notable survivors who helped preserve the group's history included Inge Scholl (the Scholls' sister), who wrote the first major account of the group, and Jürgen Wittenstein, a medical student who took many of the iconic photos of the group.
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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
@JohnAutry so ein schöner TTag, und ich muss gehen’
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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
@JohnAutry I learned about them in school here in the UK. I also learned about the groups that liked to go out and beat the shit out of the Hitler Youth when they went out rambling in the countryside.
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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
@JohnAutry Thank you for this - as you say, very little is known about the resistance within nazi germany.
I know it existed....how could it not, tbh?
Would it be a safe assumption that the white flower she is wearing, (not a rose?), was a silent sign of resistance?
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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
@JohnAutry thank you so much for sharing this. Important to #remember there are always people resisting evil. Chattel slavery faced opposition. Women all along have known they deserve the right to make their own decisions. And we continue to reject apartheid and exploitation as we push for real freedom
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@JohnAutry Thank you for this - as you say, very little is known about the resistance within nazi germany.
I know it existed....how could it not, tbh?
Would it be a safe assumption that the white flower she is wearing, (not a rose?), was a silent sign of resistance?
@Oyu_Fka Interesting question. I'm afraid that is above my pay grade.
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@Oyu_Fka Interesting question. I'm afraid that is above my pay grade.
@JohnAutry Well, if it's any help, I've just ploughed through Wikipedia, and find no reference to wearing a white flower as symbolic of resistance...and, logically speaking, considering how few they were, it would have been fool-hardy to do so.
Conclusion: Pure coincidence
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@JohnAutry Well, if it's any help, I've just ploughed through Wikipedia, and find no reference to wearing a white flower as symbolic of resistance...and, logically speaking, considering how few they were, it would have been fool-hardy to do so.
Conclusion: Pure coincidence
️.@Oyu_Fka Did the same before my initial response.
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