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zinniajones · 11 months
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“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.” ― Sophie Scholl
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thepersonalwords · 3 months
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Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.
Sophie Scholl
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girlactionfigure · 7 months
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Not every story of heroism takes place on the front lines. Sometimes, the story is about treason......
As a student in Germany during the Second World War, Sophie Scholl (pictured) knew that Hitler's régime was lying to the German people about the conduct of the war on the eastern front.
Her fiancé, Fritz Hartnagel, an officer in the Wehrmacht, wrote her letters outlining the horrible suffering of the German troops fighting there, but also told her about the inhuman atrocities being committed against Russian civilians.
With other like-minded young students, Sophie joined a resistance organization co-founded by her brother, Hans. The organization was called the White Rose (Weiße Rose), and they wrote pamphlets calling for the end of the Nazi régime.
In February of 1943, Sophie and Hans were arrested by the Gestapo for blanketing the campus of Ludwig Maximilian University in Münich with anti-Nazi leaflets. Their arrest led to the arrest of another member of the group, a medical student named Christoph Probst, who was one of the main authors of the White Rose's pamphlets.
With German morale spiraling downward, German cities being leveled by Allied bombers, and tens of thousands of German civilians being killed in air raids, respect for the Nazi leadership was crumbling in areas of the country.
Against this backdrop, the Gestapo decided to make an example of Sophie, Hans, and Christoph.
Four days after Sophie and Hans were arrested, and two days after Christoph's arrest, all three were condemned to death by a German court, and executed by guillotine that same evening.
Christoph was 23, Hans was 24, and Sophie was only 21.
Later that year, one of the White Rose's anti-Nazi pamphlets was smuggled to England. The Allies made millions of copies of it, and dropped them from bombers all over Germany so the message of these heroic students would continue to spread, and would fan the flames of discontent throughout the dying Third Reich.
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garadinervi · 11 months
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Sophie Scholl, May 9, 1921 / 2023
(image: Sophie Scholl, 1940. (via otl aicher 100))
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thepersonalquotes · 6 months
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Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.
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justbeingnamaste · 9 months
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“Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone”
~ Sophie Scholl
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“Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.”
~ Sophie Scholl
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radiofreederry · 11 months
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Happy birthday, Sophie Scholl! (May 9, 1921)
The daughter of a liberal politician from Wurttemburg, Sophie Scholl grew up as the Nazi Party took power in Germany. After briefly the Nazi youth girls' organization the League of German Girls, Scholl quickly became anti-Nazi, especially after her brothers were arrested for anti-Nazi activities. By 1942, as a student at the University of Munich, Scholl became a leader in the resistance group known as the White Rose, and distributed anti-Nazi flyers and leaflets. She was ultimately caught and executed by the Nazi state.
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vampirechatroom · 1 month
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“The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.”
—Sophie Scholl, antifascist student activist executed by Nazis on this day in 1943
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quotelr · 7 months
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Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone.
Sophie Scholl
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rabbitcruiser · 1 month
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Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany on February 22, 1943.
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whiteforfreiheit · 3 months
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""Sophie and Hans Scholl on the day of their death, already convicted (previously unpublished)": That was the caption in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (journal) from 1953. Martin Kalusche discovered the photos during his search for sources about the White Rose; They are from February 22, 1943 around 2 p.m. - three hours later Hans and Sophie were dead."
Schröder, S. (s. d.). Theologe dokumentiert die Quellen zur « Weißen Rose » : « Letzte gemeinsame Zigarette ist erfunden » | Sonntagsblatt - 360 Grad evangelisch. Sonntagsblatt. https://www.sonntagsblatt.de/quellen-weisse-rose
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apenitentialprayer · 1 year
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Sophie Scholl, anti-Nazi activist and member of the White Rose, executed by the Reich at age 21.
My friend Howard Zinn, the great historian and author of A People's History of the United States [... h]ad been studying social change for more than thirty-five years, he said, and he had come to a conclusion. Every U.S. movement for social change -for abolition, for suffrage, for labor rights, for civil rights, for an end to war- from its beginning, throughout its existence, and right up to the very end was . . . hopeless. I found this oddly consoling. [... We must] do what needs to be done, even in the face of no apparent result, but trusting in the goodness of our action, the rightness of our cause, the urgency of public response. [...] Great breakthroughs of hope derived from this, he said. Change evolved because ordinary people kept at it. They refused to give up. They did what they could, no matter how small the act. Everyone involved made a difference. This is the lesson of Sophie Scholl. Her life and witness, along with that of all other heroes of the White Rose, bore good fruit after all. [...] Every one of us can do something; indeed, the nonviolent Jesus calls every one of us to do something for suffering humanity. Sophie Scholl still shines a bright light in a dark world. She inspires courage and urges us to stand with her. I hope and pray that during these dark times, we too can look raw power in the face and insist on truth and peace.
Fr. John Dear (Put Down Your Sword: Answering the Gospel Call to Creative Nonviolence, pages 160, 160, 160, 160, 160-161)
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thepersonalwords · 5 months
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Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.
Sophie Scholl
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contremineur · 1 year
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Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9th May 1921 – 22nd February 1943), German student and anti-Nazi political activist
Somebody, after all, had to make a start.
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garadinervi · 1 month
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München, February 22, 1943 / 2024
«Einer muss doch schließlich mal damit anfangen. Was wir sagten und schrieben, denken ja so viele. Nur wagen sie es nicht, es auszusprechen.» – Sophie Scholl, Justizpalastes, München, February 22, 1943
«Die Verurteilte war ruhig und gefasst.» (Protokoll über die Vollstreckung des Todesurteils des Volksgerichtshofes an Sophie Scholl, München, den 22. Februar 1943)
«freiheit» (the reverse side (detail) of a document belonging to the Chief Prosecutors, February 21, 1943, with handwriting «freedom» by Sophie Scholl)
Sophie Scholl (May 9, 1921 – February 22, 1943), student Hans Scholl (September 22, 1918 – February 22, 1943), student Christoph Probst (November 6, 1919 – February 22, 1943), student Alexander Schmorell (September 16, 1917 – July 13, 1943), student Kurt Huber (October 24, 1893 – July 13, 1943), professor Willi Graf (January 2, 1918 – October 12, 1943), student
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Hans Konrad Leipelt (July 18, 1921 – January 29, 1945), student Margaretha Rothe (June 13, 1919 – April 15, 1945), student Reinhold Meyer (July 18, 1920 – November 12, 1944), student Friedrich Geussenhainer (April 24, 1912 – April 1945), student Katharina Leipelt (May 28, 1893 – January 9, 1944), dr. rer. nat. Elisabeth Lange (July 7, 1900 – January 28, 1944) Margaretha Mrosek (December 25, 1902 – April 24, 1945) Kurt Ledien (June 5, 1893 – April 23, 1945), dr. jur.
«Das wird Wellen schlagen»
«Allen!»
(image: Sophie Scholl, ca. early-1940s, in Christine Hikel, Sophies Schwester. Inge Scholl und die Weiße Rose, Oldenbourg Verlag, München, 2013, p. 94)
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From July to November 1942, Hans, Schmorell and Graf were forced to take a break from their studies—and their burgeoning activism—to serve as medics on the Eastern Front. There, they witnessed with their own eyes the misery of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto. “Warsaw would sicken me in the long run,” Hans wrote to his parents in July. “Half-starved children sprawl in the street and whimper for bread. … The mood is universally doom-laden.”
Appalled by the violence and injustice they’d witnessed, the friends returned to Munich determined to step up their resistance efforts by distributing leaflets throughout Germany and Austria. Ultimately, the White Rose circulated at least 7,000 leaflets in 16 major cities, from Munich to Frankfurt to Vienna to Berlin, conveying the impression that the group’s membership was widespread, not just a handful of indefatigable students hand-cranking out pamphlets in Munich.
The leaflets were like nothing the Gestapo had ever seen—not rigid ideological tracts aimed at the working classes, but passionate, erudite manifestos that quoted Friedrich Schiller, Plato and Laozi. “The guilt of Hitler and his accomplices goes beyond all measure,” read the group’s fifth leaflet. “Tear up the cloak of indifference you have wrapped around your hearts. Make your decision before it is too late!”
  —  Hans and Sophie Scholl Were Once Hitler Youth Leaders. Why Did They Decide to Stand Up to the Nazis?
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