Edited by Hazel Perry, Sunday 28 October 2012 at 13:45
Yesturday I bought the Housmans Peace Diary, 2013 which reminded me that February 2013 is the seventieth anniversary of the execution of Sophie Scholl of the White Rose Resistance Group, in Munich.
I don't think enough people know about the White Rose, and I came accross literature about the group while researching a holiday to Germany a couple of years ago that included a short stay in Munich.
Sophie, a student at Munich university, was a young woman when she was executed (by guillotine) for spreading anti-Nazi propoganda in the form of five leaflets. She was not the only member of the group to be executed but became their most well-known symbol.
The leaflets were smuggled out of Germany and reached Britain where they were made into another leaflet called the 'Manifesto of the Munich Students' and dropped throughout Germany by the RAF in late 1943.
There is a small but dedicated musem to the White Rose in the basement of Munich University, very small and mostly expalined in German, but well worth a visit.
Without the brave actions of young German's such as Sophie Scholl life could be very different now for all of us. She is a reminder of, not just the brutalities of war, but of also how we should never take freedom of speech for granted.
The White Rose Resistance Group
Yesturday I bought the Housmans Peace Diary, 2013 which reminded me that February 2013 is the seventieth anniversary of the execution of Sophie Scholl of the White Rose Resistance Group, in Munich.
I don't think enough people know about the White Rose, and I came accross literature about the group while researching a holiday to Germany a couple of years ago that included a short stay in Munich.
Sophie, a student at Munich university, was a young woman when she was executed (by guillotine) for spreading anti-Nazi propoganda in the form of five leaflets. She was not the only member of the group to be executed but became their most well-known symbol.
The leaflets were smuggled out of Germany and reached Britain where they were made into another leaflet called the 'Manifesto of the Munich Students' and dropped throughout Germany by the RAF in late 1943.
There is a small but dedicated musem to the White Rose in the basement of Munich University, very small and mostly expalined in German, but well worth a visit.
Without the brave actions of young German's such as Sophie Scholl life could be very different now for all of us. She is a reminder of, not just the brutalities of war, but of also how we should never take freedom of speech for granted.
Miss Scholl - I salute you.