Sophie Scholl
Recent History of the White Rose Appearing in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung
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. 69). It appears here with the permission of the SDZ. Reproduction of this translation requires permission and may be obtained by writing: [email protected] Translator’s note: Sophie Scholl endures as key…
Read MoreTen Mounted Photographs to Honor Sophie Scholl’s 100 Birthday
Charlestown, Rhode Island, May 5, 2021. Starting on May 9, BoP Gallery at 289 Narrow Lane will be showing ten historic photographs illustrating the heroic lives of Munich’s White Rose resistance group. Sophie Scholl, German teacher and student (1921-1943), was a principal figure in a cell that would grow beyond 23 members at the…
Read MoreSophie Scholl (1921-1943), German student, teacher and resistance figure
During the Great War, Sophie was born in Forchtenberg located in the Swabian province during the Weimar Republic.
Read MoreSophie Scholl’s Show Trial
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…
Read MoreSophie Scholl, Diary Entry 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…
Read MoreUse of the Word “Resistance” in Campaigning
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 of Connecticut
New Brunswick Theological Seminary Exhibition To Highlight “The Spirit in the Struggle against Nazism”
October 3, 2018
7 p.m.
Lecture & Exhibition
The Spirit in the Struggle against Nazism”
New Brunswick Theological Seminary
New Jersey
Translation of Sophie Scholl’s Gestapo Interrogation Notes
Fortsetzung der Vernehmung der Beschuldigten Munich, February 20, 1943 Context: Two days earlier, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl were captured and arrested at the University of Munich after distributing Professor Kurt Huber’s sixth edition of the “German Resistance” leaflets. They were interrogated by Chief Inspector Robert Mohr at the State Secret Police Headquarters on Briennerstrasse. The below…
Read MoreSeventy-Five Years Ago Today
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 die hours later, forgiving her executioners as the passageway to eternal life. (See: Pastor Alt’s eyewitness testimony to her last Communion.) If one wants to know this great hero of…
Read MoreDear Sophie from Fritz Hartnagel, sent from Occupied Poland, February 17, 1943
Context: Captain Fritz Hartnagel was one of the last Officers from the Sixth Army flown out of surrounded Stalingrad. Although this letter exists, it is doubtful that Sophie received it. It was written on the day before her last leaflet protest, capture and arrest. My dear…
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