Always remember Hans and Sophie Scholl, brother and sister, who were executed on Feb 22 1943 for their resistance to Hitler. By speaking the truth they hoped to awaken the conscience of Germany, inspire a moral uprising, or at least shatter the unanimity of consent.
@RobertEllsberg @RobertEllsberg
22 Feb 2018
75 years ago today Sophie and Hans Scholl, siblings, students, members of the White Rose, were beheaded for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Armed with nothing but a mimeograph machine, courage, and the uncorrupted idealism of youth, they challenged the edifice of tyranny.
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Feb 22, 2019 · 11:41 AM UTC

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Are there any good books or movies about her? She must have kept a diary, I'm guessing.
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amazon.com/gp/aw/d/087486029… and many other books about the White Rose
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No bishops or papal Nuncios sharing their cells? Not surprised! To busy writing concordats with thugs coming straight from the cells, with their shoes sticky with blood. In whose name did these professional clerics operate? Surely not, Jesus of Nazareth.