THE COURAGEOUS
SOPHIE SCHOLL
G'day folks,
Here is an inspiring story. Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi
political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group
in Nazi Germany.
Like
most German children in the 1930s, Sophie Scholl and her five siblings joined
Nazi youth groups. But Sophie and her brother Hans grew outraged that educated
Germans went along with racist Nazi policies.
In 1942, the two siblings, along
with their friend Christoph Probst, started a secret society which was known as
the “White Rose Resistance.” The trio painted anti-Nazi slogans on the campus
of the University of Munich and distributed pamphlets detailing the genocide of
Jewish people.
“Since the conquest of Poland, 300,000 Jews have been
murdered, a crime against humanity,” read a White Rose Resistance pamphlet.
Scholl’s father, an avowed anti-Nazi who was arrested for
criticizing Hitler to a colleague, had raised his children to stand up for what
they believed in their hearts. “What I want for you is to live in uprightness
and freedom of spirit, no matter how difficult that proves to be.”
His
words were prophetic. In October, 1943, Sophie and Hans Scholl, along with
Christoph Probst, were sentenced to death by guillotine.
Before
she was beheaded at the age of twenty-one, Sophie Scholl said, “Such a fine,
sunny day, and I have to go….But what does my death matter…if through us
thousands of people… are awakened and stirred to action?”
Clancy's comment: Such courage, but it's a shame more people did not follow her example and speak out. Love ya work, Sophie!
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