This blog post is a translation of Jakob Wetzel’s article appearing on March 24, 2021 in Munich's largest daily newspaper, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung (24.3.21, Nr. ...

Charlestown, Rhode Island, May 5, 2021.   Starting on May 9, BoP Gallery at 289 Narrow Lane will be showing ten historic photographs illustrating the ...

Forchtenberg, May 9, 1921 - Munich, February 22, 1943 From left to right: Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst at Munich Ostbahnhof, November ...

Justizpalast, Munich Germany, Site of Scholl and Probst Trial, 2/22/43 "What we wrote and said is what you all think too! Only you don't have ...

The following passage is an excerpt from "With You There Is Light: Based on the True Story about Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel." Medical students at ...

Appropriating World War II Language for 2018 U.S. Mid Term Elections We need a leader, not a movement. - Candidate for Governor of the State ...

Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst - organizing members of the White Rose resistance - at Munich Train Station, November 1941. Photo by ...

State Secret Police Headquarters, Munich 1943Briennerstrasse Fortsetzung der Vernehmung der Beschuldigten Munich, February 20, 1943 Context: Two days earlier, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl were ...

Seventy-five years ago today Sophie Scholl sketched "FREEDOM" on the backside of her conviction for "treason." F R E E D O M. She would ...

The White Rose Resistance also included banned artists, poets, philosophers and painters. Wilhelm Geyer's paintings were on view in Munich's Eickeyer studio during the student ...

Context: Fritz Hartnagel survives Stalingrad. It is World War II's most horrific battle. He is recuperating from near starvation and amputations from severe frostbite at ...

Young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran are taking great risks to publicly protest against their President Rouhani and cleric leader, Ayatollah Khameni. With ...

Translated here into English for the first time with permission of S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt. To Sophie Scholl from Fritz Hartnagel, December 1942. Yesterday, my ...

Reading at St. James in North Salem, New York November 26, 2017 After Service at the St. James Episcopal Church, North Salem, New York The first ...

November 17, 2017. Books & Books in Grand Cayman, B.V.I. A reading from "With You There Is Light" led to a discussion of today's media ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian, pastor and political resistance activist involved in Berlin's July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.  Bonhoeffer assisted in providing intelligence that ...

Note: The below personal essay describing a reading experience in September, 2017 provided this writer with the opportunity to further define "With You There Is ...

For the liberal elite, Progressives, and #NeverTrumpers, resistance means opposition to the country’s sitting President. Referring to this ray of light in World War II ...

 A Series of Posts (Part One of Four) On Political History, Context and President Trump Civil Disobedience As Resistance in America and Europe during the 19th and ...

New Munich Student Resistance Installation (LMU, 2/17)     Munich, June 10, 2017. Re-visiting the new installation at the University of Munich (LMU) furthered my ...

Born on May 9, 1921 in Forchtenberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg), Sophie Scholl was the third child after her siblings Hans and Inge. She was followed by Elizabeth ("Liesel") and ...

An Often Asked Question Gets Answered Again The last question came from a very bright student at the end of the fifth class I taught ...

What we said and thought, so did you, only we were capable of saying it -Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) speaking to the crowd of onlookers during ...

Sophie Scholl gave us a very thorough "intellectual history," often quoting from and mentioning the books she read in her letters and diaries. Sophie decided to engage ...

by Alexandra Lehmann When Hitler came to power in the early 1930’s, Nazi ideology pervaded the German education system, leading to the indoctrination of an ...

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict by Erica Chenoweth. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. This book's concept is pretty huge and its far-reaching ...

October 24, 2016. Ridgefield, CT.  At the time of this writing, 150 readers have entered the goodreads.com contest for a free copy of "With You ...

Resistance in Antwerp, 1940 Fritz writes to Sophie from Antwerp after the Blitzkrieg, May 1940.               "With You There ...

Magdalena Scholl, Sophie and Hans Scholl's mother EXCERPTED FROM "WITH YOU THERE IS LIGHT": Hans and Sophie's mother knew what to do. She hurried down ...

Calw, Black Forest Fritz Hartnagel was a part of Hitler’s Army. He was going to have to fight in this so-called Blitzkrieg. What could she ...

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet and writer most recognized for satire and wit. His "Lieder (art songs)" were set to music composed by R. Schumann ...

Earlier in 1936, anti-Nazi political activist, Sophie Scholl — in her stand against Hitler — admired Paula Modersohn Becker's paintings during a trip with the ...

Historical Context:  Like most Protestant pastors, Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemoeller was a national conservative, and openly supported the conservative opponents of the Weimar Republic. ...

Historical Context: Throughout her young adulthood, political activist Sophie Scholl delved deeply into Christian faith. As the Nazi Party dismantled Christianity and arrested and interned religious ...

"You Shall Know Obedience In Order To Command" Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, decorated in World War I, taught Cadet Fritz Hartnagel at the Potsdam Military ...

Sophie and Hans Scholl were both group leaders in the League of German Girls and Hitler Youth. Several eyewitnesses reported that both siblings were initially ...

Historical Context: January, 1939. The city of Ulm is a part of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a German province that was the seat of the Hohenzollern dynasty located ...

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German writer, poet, philosopher Fritz Hartnagel was stationed in Augsburg barracks before the war. Historical Context: October, 1938. German troops ...

Ulm is noted for its "Fachwerkhaeuser" that date back to the 15th century. In 1937, the youth of Ulm were listening to "American Swing" - ...