Sophie Scholl’s Show Trial

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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 courage to say it out loud!”  The below excerpt from “With You There Is Light” is a dramatic interpretation of the Scholl siblings’ and Christoph Probst trial. Because the…

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Sophie Scholl, Diary Entry December 1941

December 1941

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 the University of Munich, Hans Scholl and Traute LaFrenz, met up with Sophie Scholl and together went skiing in Coburg, Bavaria. Sophie’s quote as expressed below is an actual…

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Christmas Greeting from Stalingrad

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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 dear Sophie, as the Russians fired on our position with heavy artillery and the sirens went berserk, a little bird suddenly sat at the edge of our trench and peeped…

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Hartnagel writes Scholl about Belgian Resistance, 1940

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              “With You There Is Light” contains translated excerpts from Fritz Hartnagel’s letters to Sophie Scholl. In this important historical document, Fritz informs Sophie about Belgium resistance. Antwerp, May 18, 1940. My dear Sophie, […] Yesterday I had enormous luck, if one can speak of luck and not of Providence. I was with…

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