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Blog postForchtenberg, May 9, 1921 – Munich, February 22, 1943
From left to right: Siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst at Munich Ostbahnhof, November 1942 before Hans and Christoph’s deployment as student medics to the Eastern Front.
Photo taken by fellow student medic: Jürgen Wittenstein.
Used here with permission from akg-images. Daughter, Sister, Artist, Teacher, Student, Writer During the Great War, Sophie was born in Forchtenberg located in the Swabian -
Blog postJustizpalast, 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 notes from it no longer exist, the author took the liberty
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Blog postThe 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…
The post Sophie Scholl, Diary Entry December 1941 appeared first on With You There Is Light: The True Story About Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel.
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Blog postAppropriating 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 When I began reading Sophie Scholl’s story to audiences during my book tour this year, I wanted to educate people about using the word”resistance” to describe opposition to the current political landscape. After one of my readings, however, another writer educated me as to the roles that we have as writers about nonfiction subjects.
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Blog postSiblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst – organizing members of the White Rose resistance – at Munich Train Station, November 1941. Photo by Jürgen Wittenstein, akg-images https://www.nbts.edu/sage-library/ Alexandra Lehmann and NBTS President Rev. Dr. Micah L. McCreary Author and Historian Alexandra Lehmann to Speak on Sophie Scholl’s Letters and Diaries Chronicling A Religious Journey New Brunswick Theological Seminary together with the University of Munich’s Wh
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Blog postState Secret Police Headquarters, Munich 1943
Briennerstrasse
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.
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Blog postSeventy-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 freedom of speech, read what she read (See: Scholl’s Intellectual History). In most of her journal entries and letters, she quotes passages from books, authors, poet
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Blog postThe White Rose Resistance also included banned artists, poets, philosophers and painters. Wilhelm Geyer’s paintings were on view in Munich’s Eickeyer studio during the student protest movement last activities in February, 1943.
Wilhelm Geyer (1900-1968), banned artist whose paintings’ hung in the studio where the White Rose Resistance Group’s activities took place.
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Blog postContext: Fritz Hartnagel survives Stalingrad. It is World War II’s most horrific battle. He is recuperating from near starvation and amputations from severe frostbite at a field hospital in occupied Poland. Sophie is studying Nazi approved philosophy with her brother and his friends at the University of Munich. They have kept their resistance activities, started…
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Blog postYoung people in the Islamic Republic of Iran are taking great risks to publicly protest against their President Rouhani and cleric leader, Ayatollah Khameni. With the help of social media, Iranians are gathering in the streets to protest theocratic corruption – rampant hunger and an estimated 40% unemployment plagues their country. The state controls all…
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With You There Is Light: Based on the True Story about Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel
Oct 23, 2017
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