Great article Jack, Hans and Sophie are true heroes. If you want to see what we're up against today, just listen to PBS Commentator Amna Nawaz interview the Conservative pod-caster Michael Knowles during their Series "On Democracy". This guy will make your skin crawl. Scary!
Another good read Jack about German history and how one man could say he was a good person and live a good life while two young people stood up for what was right and died for that cause. I agree that Sophie and Hans were true heroes and The White Rose. Happy to see that Germany Schools today honor them as well
Some interesting info from my friend Martin Epstein: ----In 2002, there was a German documentary, BLIND SPOT, about Traudl Junge, a 19 year old who wanted to be a dancer but couldn't afford it so she went to secretarial school instead and was picked from a line of applicants to be Hitler's private secretary. "All we did was drink coffee and smoke cigarettes in his underground bunker." After the war, she was de-Nazified and went her way. Close to 90 when the documentary was made, she describes how at 40, living in Munich, she passed Sophie Scholl's statue on one of her walks and realized she and Sophie were the same age when Sophie was executed. Traudle asked herself how come Sophie knew what was going on and I didn't? "And that was the first time I realized I wasguilty," she said. Traudle died shortly after the film came out.
Great article Jack, Hans and Sophie are true heroes. If you want to see what we're up against today, just listen to PBS Commentator Amna Nawaz interview the Conservative pod-caster Michael Knowles during their Series "On Democracy". This guy will make your skin crawl. Scary!
The parallels are astounding. Thank you, Jack-as always
My sense, Tom, is that history does not teach lessons, but can give perspective.
Thank you for stepping up, Jack. We need voices like Sophie's.
Terrifying…
Many schools in Germany are named for Sophie and Hans and the White Rose. We need real heroes.
Another good read Jack about German history and how one man could say he was a good person and live a good life while two young people stood up for what was right and died for that cause. I agree that Sophie and Hans were true heroes and The White Rose. Happy to see that Germany Schools today honor them as well
Some interesting info from my friend Martin Epstein: ----In 2002, there was a German documentary, BLIND SPOT, about Traudl Junge, a 19 year old who wanted to be a dancer but couldn't afford it so she went to secretarial school instead and was picked from a line of applicants to be Hitler's private secretary. "All we did was drink coffee and smoke cigarettes in his underground bunker." After the war, she was de-Nazified and went her way. Close to 90 when the documentary was made, she describes how at 40, living in Munich, she passed Sophie Scholl's statue on one of her walks and realized she and Sophie were the same age when Sophie was executed. Traudle asked herself how come Sophie knew what was going on and I didn't? "And that was the first time I realized I wasguilty," she said. Traudle died shortly after the film came out.
Thanks, Jack, I would write a comment but after reading the Sunday Times, there's not much left of me.