Sophia Magdalena Scholl Quotes
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
She was found guilty and executed a few days later. The non violent resistance tactics were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
Sophia Magdalena Scholl, 1921–1943, Member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement during the Nazi regime in Germany, Statement to the Volksgerichtshof (People's Court) in her treason trial, 1943
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She was found guilty of treason because she had passed out leaflets criticizing the Nazi regime on a university campus. The non violent resistance tactics were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
She was found guilty of treason because she had passed out leaflets criticizing the Nazi regime on a university campus. The non violent resistance tactics were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by beheading as a particularly harsh example.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising.
His son, the famous aviator, was a Fascist who was a great admirer and supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. The father however was generally liberal as this quotation and {609657} illustrate.
It is hard to believe that anyone who could write this, would end up running the largest society since the middle ages where total conformity was required with death often accompanying dissent. Yet that is exactly what happened in this great intellectual and philosophical flip flops.
