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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Paperback – June 2, 2007

by Jud Newborn (Author), Annette Dumbach (Author)
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In the spring and summer of 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death. Protesting in the name of principles Hitler thought he had killed forever, Sophie Scholl and other members of the White Rose realized that the ‘Germanization’ Hitler sought to enforce was cruel and inhuman, and that they could not be content to remain silent in its midst.

From its inception to its end, the captivating story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is an uplifting and enlightening account of German resistance to the Third Reich. With detailed chronicles of Scholl’s arrest and trial before Hitler’s Hanging Judge, Roland Freisler, as well as appendices containing all of the leaflets the White Rose wrote and circulated exhorting Germans to stand up and fight back, this volume is an invaluable addition to World War II literature and a fascinating window into human resilience in the face of dictatorship.
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    256 pages
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    English
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    Oneworld Publications
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    June 2, 2007
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    5.25 x 0.75 x 7.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1851685367
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1851685363
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  • Deanna Carr
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sophie Scholl and The White Rose
    Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2006
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    It is quite impossible to do an adequate job of reviewing this book.

    Knowing that these young German students really lived, daring to risk their young lives and, indeed, losing them, for their distribution of their printed words challenging German people to act against Hitler, is unbelievably humbling and cause for great hope for mankind. Passive resistence worked. Life triumphed over death. Good was stronger than evil.

    The authors, Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn, became accomplished talents with the publication of this book alone.

    Their ability to combine the biographies of Sophie, her brother and their compatriots in the making and distrubtion of the White Rose and the requisite history and analysis of the political climate in Germany during The Holcaust is masterful.

    The book reads like a suspense thriller one could read in a few hours. However, their thoughtful, detailed insights into the minds and hearts of the protagonists, compel the reader to read and then reread many passages before being emotionally able to read on. This is a must read for young and old students of the human condition, a truly unforgettable book.
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  • Scamp Lumm
    5.0 out of 5 stars "Soon you will be standing here, where I now stand."-Hans Scholl
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2014
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    "Brave and G-d fearing Resisted evil", aren't those words you would want spoken of you when you pass on from this life to eternity? I found them in a Youtube video I love by Moshe G. That in sum tells what this clandestine German youth group did; their actions set the nazi leadership on edge, hallelujah.

    So prophetic these words of Sophie Scholl's older brother spoken on the day of his trial February 22, 1943 which would be realized at Nuremberg a few years later. The honorable President of the Nazi court could not help but squeal and shriek and scream at such testimony coming from the mouths of Hans and his friends of the White Rose group who managed to get 6 of 7 tracts printed and distributed among the population. These tracts' effects were hard to measure but those few Germans who received them recalled how like a lightning bolt's strike, their hands trembled with shock and relief that someone was doing something and were able to speak their minds.

    Hans and Alex Schmorell whose Russian mother died in his infancy and the other members of the White Rose Group were sent to the Russian front and served as medics behind the lines. Oh my goodness I thought, the worst place in the world to be. Alex being fluent in Russian befriended the peasantry and the white rose group spent their days singing and dancing in peasant huts before the fighting subsided and their medical ministrations began. So they made the most of a terribly bad situation. Alex witnessed at trial that, "I could not shoot a Russian, having romanticized about his Russian mother and told Russian folk tales by his Russian nannies, this particular testimony enraged the President of the Court. Alex like Dietrich Bonhoeffer had an opportunity to escape and almost made it without detection to Switzerland but returned to Munich when he learned of Hans and Sophie's arrest. He was an integral member of the group.

    Hans and Sophie Scholl somehow managed to organize and evade detection by the nazis for many years. Their group of people was composed of students and one professor of the University of Munich; they were students of medicine and philosophy all in their early twenties when they were executed, except for Professor Huber. They used their pooled allowances from family members to purchase a rudimentary printing press which they hid and once their tracts were printed each member of the group would take a suitcase full of letters and take the train to various locations within Germany and so went the circulation. They all vowed to each other, if one was caught that they would not let go the names of the other members of the group.

    It was Professor Huber and Willi Graf's 6th and last distributed letter which was released from the cargo holds of the British RAF by the thousands flying over war torn Germany in the last years of the war. "Our people are deeply shaken by the fall of our men at Stalingrad. Three hundred and thirty thousand German men were senselessly and irresponsibly driven to their deaths by the brilliant strategy of our World War I Corporal. Fuhrer, we thank you!" The German commander Von Paulus surrendered to Stalin and left a quarter of a million Germans, the population of an entire small American city today, stranded at Stalingrad in the winter of 1943 left to be imprisoned and executed in a fiercely cold Russian winter. Many Germans were upset with their leadership following this debacle, even as early as 1943, but few were able to speak out so effectively and it became even more difficult as time went on. "There is only one slogan for us: fight against the Party! Get out of all Party organizations, which are used to keep our mouths shut and hold us in political bondage! Get out of the lecture halls run by SS corporals and Party sychophants!...Freedom and honor! For ten long years Hitler and his comrades have squeezed, debased and twisted those beautiful German words...casting the highest values of a nation before swine." It was this letter, strewn from the balconies of the University of Munich by Hans and Sophie Scholl that got them arrested in February 1943.

    Before the war began, The Scholl's own father had been briefly imprisoned and released for speaking out against the nazis but managed to secretly have radio broadcasts of the BBC played in their house, Like so many other German youth, Hans initially joined the Hitler Youth group long before the war and enjoyed the cameraderie, singing and hiking in the German woodlands, but later became disenchanted and silently, carefully teased himself out of the network. Their father was a local dignitary of some sort and so had some connections.

    This story is important in many respects in that it chronicles the difficulties ordinary Germans had to face in a true police state. It became dangerous to noise one's views in public and even in private, semi-closed circles; everyone was being monitored under nazi rule. As time went on, and nothing was done to thwart nazi injustice, it became even harder and harder for resistance groups to thrive and exist. These individuals, like the Bonhoeffers and Scholls were quickly silenced by being imprisoned, subjected to sham trials and executed.

    I have purchased another book by the Scholl's older sister Inge and will read it, but was put off by the introduction which slammed President Reagan's policies toward Russia in the 80's. I see everything right with a peace through strength policy and so set that one aside, bad tasted in my mouth and read this one first. This book contains all seven published tracts and notes of their trials and a radio broadcast transcript in the appendices.

    I close with the opening statement of Thomas Mann's radio broadcast of June 27, 1943 with which I opened this review:

    "The idea that it is impossible to distinguish between the German Volk and Nazism-that to be German and National Socialist are one and the same thing-is heard at times in the Allied countries, and put forward with some passion. But this idea is untenable...too many facts testify to the contrary...Good, splendid young people! You shall not have died in vain; you shall not be forgotten."

    "Despite everything, your spirit lives on!"-Hans Liepelt, chemistry student and distributor of the White Rose leaflets who, also was executed.
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  • Dermott Hayes
    4.0 out of 5 stars Gumption
    Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2013
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    The Scholls have become icons of righteousness in a wrong thinking world and Sophie Scholl, for her youth and commitment, impervious to personal danger, is almost unbelievable. Annette Dumbach's factual prose dispels that and presents Sophie, the human being. And yes, she was an extraordinary human being when hers and the efforts of her comrades in the tiny group, The White Rose are considered against the cowering indifference of her compatriots, in the face of Nazi tyranny. This is a good read.
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  • Emily
    5.0 out of 5 stars i've always loved the story of the white rose
    Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2015
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    i've always loved the story of the white rose. this book took a very interesting approach in that it didn't just tell the history of the group, but all the art movements and philosophies that influenced and shaped them into the people they became. it painted a much fuller picture of each person than i've seen in other books, and i really enjoyed it.
    in general, the story of die geschwister scholl is beautiful and tragic and inspiring and moving. absolutely, definitely worth a read.
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  • Emily
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and Inspiring!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2011
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    I was introduced to this book in a class in college. This book is amazing and inspiring and a book that you don't want to put down until the end. I would recommend this book to anyone, but especially college students and professors to use in their classrooms. Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is a book that college students, and students in general, can relate to easily and be inspired to live up to the example that Sophie, Hans and others in the book set. This book inspired me and my classmates to have the courage to stand against the injustices that we see in the world today. Knowing the mistakes that Sophie and Hans made in their early lives made them even more inspiring. This book teaches that you don't have to be perfect to make a difference in the world. Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is a great tool to use to encourage students to become leaders in the world that recognize the importance of standing up for what you believe. Any teacher or professor wanting to instill these values in their students should use this book.
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  • Mec
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five star bio
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014
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    Well written tale of an often forgotten heroine ( outside Germany).
    The German people are so often accused of complacency during the rise of the nazi party, it is fascinating to read of the bravery of these teenagers who spoke out against them and unfortunately paid the ultimate price for their belief in free speech.
    Bought this for my son who is studying the rise of fascism, but read it myself too. Well worth a read.
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  • Neil Sage
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2023
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    This is a great book, really well written. I loved that it didn't just tell the story of The White Rose, which is fascinating on its own, but also set the scene by describing what life was like for ordinary people in Germany throughout the 1930s and early 40s. It puts the lead up to the actions of those heroic students into context of their city, region and country. How events in the war affected their actions and how their families and people elsewhere responded to them at the time and after. A heart breaking and inspiring story. Watch the film Sophie Scholl – The Final Days as well.
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  • Andreas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ein die Zeiten überdauernder "Good Read"
    Reviewed in Germany on November 13, 2017
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    Das Buch ist spannend geschrieben und ich habe es in einem Rutsch gelesen. Es macht neugierig, sich mit den Persönlichkeiten der Weißen Rose und ihres Umfelds weiter zu beschäftigen. Das Deutschland der NS Zeit wird glaubhaft skizziert, ohne in eine undifferenzierte Verurteilung der Menschen dieser Zeit zu verfallen. (Nur in 1-2 Passagen sind der Feder kleinere "PC" Phrasen entglitten.)
    Ein die Zeiten überdauernder "Good Read".
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  • Xavier Gesé
    5.0 out of 5 stars Obra maestra
    Reviewed in Spain on February 6, 2014
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    No se trata de un libro de puro entretenimiento, sino una fuente donde se han recopilado de forma excelente los hechos principales y más escalofriantes de este grupo de resitencia.
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  • CHERYL BAKER
    4.0 out of 5 stars I really enjoyed this book
    Reviewed in Australia on April 19, 2016
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    I really enjoyed this book, it's a part of history I didn't know anything about, amazing courage those students possessed in the face of such danger.
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  • Allan LEONARD
    5.0 out of 5 stars "We are your bad conscience!"
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2007
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    A surperbly well researched and presented account of an act of honour and bravery by conscientious young German students, who dared to stand up against the mind numbing machine of Nazism and the Nationalist Socialist movement during World War II.

    In 1989, I visited an exhibition in the Reichstag, where there were a variety of uniforms for every aspect of life -- the postman, the milkman -- one for everyone! It was as if all German society was so bound up in this regimented and unforgiving mode of living.

    Thus it was all the more refreshing to learn about the Scholl siblings and their quest to make Germans think. "We are your bad conscience!" they declared in one of the leaflets.

    Sophie School and the White Rose could not have been a better written book. Dumback and Newborn describe not only the events in fine detail, but provide insightful background perspectives of all the characters involved.

    No advanced knowledge of the war is required. This is a story of a desperate campaign for freedom during Europe's darkest days. As such, it should be required reading on every civics, philosophy, history or ethics course.

    To cite the last sentence of the book, "...if people like those who formed the White Rose can exist, believe as they believed, act as they acted, maybe it means that this weary, corrupted, and extremely endangered species we belong to has the right to survive, and to keep on trying."
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