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Steven Godin
Information technology bothered me from the commencement that on the front encompass this book is described as having an animated narrative that reads like a suspense novel.
I hope not, I idea. I don't want a novel.
Yeah, there were some tense moments, in which members of the WR risked life and limb past mailing large quantities of anti-Nazi leaflets around Germany, whilst the dreaded Gestapo loitered everywhere. And in parts information technology did have novel qualities, that had me thinking of Hans Fallada'due south Vivid 'Alone in Berlin', simply
Information technology bothered me from the first that on the front cover this volume is described as having an animated narrative that reads similar a suspense novel.
I hope non, I idea. I don't want a novel.
Yes, in that location were some tense moments, in which members of the WR risked life and limb by mailing large quantities of anti-Nazi leaflets around Germany, whilst the dreaded Gestapo loitered everywhere. And in parts it did accept novel qualities, that had me thinking of Hans Fallada'southward Brilliant 'Lone in Berlin', simply on the whole this detailed business relationship of the White Rose felt more than similar a history lesson, a render to the classroom, that information technology did a gripping novel. Which was what I'd hoped.

My noesis of the White Rose and their activities had previously been pretty slim - a group of students are sentenced to death for spreading their hatred for the 3rd Reich. And this book did a slap-up job of filling in the many blanks. How did information technology all kickoff? who were its founders? How did many of them get caught, before beingness charged with treason? I at present feel bloated with WR data, and definitely got my moneys worth. Annette Dumbach conspicuously goes about her research with much passion, and even includes at the back of the book - all the leaflets (which turned out to exist far longer than I thought) written past the White Rose and the Resistance, photos/mugshots of those charged, including the defiant looking brother & sister Hans and Sophie Scholl at the fourth dimension of their abort - February 18, 1943, chillingly, the actual guillotine used for execution, and the Munich court where the defendants were tried (which surprised me as to how pocket-sized it was). I also learned to my great joy that the proficient quondam RAF reprinted one of the leaflets, and air-dropped millions of copies over Federal republic of germany in July 1943.

For all the fascination I found with this book, it is withal, ultimately so tragic. I actually started to think that all these events, and all the terror, all the deaths, and all the carnage of WW2 only didn't really happen, how could it? Only information technology did. The white Rose students played only a small role in the battle against such evil, but they did make a difference. And all these years that have passed, they still have the power to ignite and inspire people to speak out against injustice.

An extract from the along printed White Rose leaflet-

"Who has counted the dead - Hitler or Goebbels? Neither of them! In Russia thousands are lost daily. It is the fourth dimension of the harvest, and the reaper cuts into the ripe grain with wide strokes. Mourning enters the land cottages, and in that location is no one to dry the tears of the mothers. Yet Hitler feeds lies to those people whose almost precious holding he has stolen and whom he has driven to a meaningless death. Every give-and-take out of Hitler'south mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means state of war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of hell, and his might is at lesser accursed. True, nosotros must conduct the struggle confronting the National Socialist terrorist state with rational means, only whoever today still doubts the real existence of demonic powers has completely failed to empathize the metaphysical background of this state of war. Behind the physical, visible events, backside all objective, rational considerations, we find the irrational element: the struggle against the devil, against the servants of the Antichrist!"

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Jan-Maat
My impression of the Scholls and the White Rose movement (too strong) / organisation( barely that) / gang (?) from when I first learnt of and so around the age of seventeen or eighteen was that they were sugariness, but silly. After reading this book my first impression hasn't shifted much if at at all.

The Scholls formed a small group of Munich students, they wrote and distributed six anti-Nazi leaflets from Juneish 1942 until 18th Feb 1943 when they were caught. Then they were executed.

That was t

My impression of the Scholls and the White Rose movement (as well strong) / system( barely that) / gang (?) from when I first learnt of then around the age of seventeen or eighteen was that they were sweet, simply dizzy. After reading this volume my first impression hasn't shifted much if at at all.

The Scholls formed a small group of Munich students, they wrote and distributed six anti-Nazi leaflets from Juneish 1942 until 18th February 1943 when they were defenseless. Then they were executed.

That was the Scholls, briefly, at present the volume. It seemed to me to be pitched at people who had heard of the Scholls or the White Rose but didn't know much about Germany. Reading the book the questions in my mind were who wrote the leaflets, when, how did they manage the practical side, and why did they even get-go - these questions didn't interest the author, the question of why was only obliquely addressed with the curious suggestion that they might take been motivated by Heidegger - well his writings, non in person which given his clan with the Nazi regime would have been odd.

To my mind, iii ways present themselves equally to how to approach on the Scholls - a Gestapo view focusing on becoming aware of these leafleteers, attempts to detect out more and to rails them downward downwardly (the advantage of this is that there is some documentary bear witness) - a comparative view looking at them in the context of resistance movements in Federal republic of germany every bit a whole they were typical in that they emerged relatively late, once centrolineal victory looked to be somewhere betwixt extremely likely and inevitable, they were also typical in that the ideological spectrum of those involved from semi-communist left to authoritarian militaristic right wing was quite broad - or thirdly something focused on the details of the Scholls and their circle, this I gather reading between the lines would be the most difficult since reasonably enough they were quite secretive (oftentimes a good thought when involved in clandestine resistance movements) and mostly young, and non particularly exceptional on the face of it, the Scholls were Protestants from Swabia, the others Catholics, mostly students, a couple were in the army as medics, their access to amphetamines helped to fuel the operations of the grouping, possibly contributing to their ultimate carelessness.

Dumbach and Newborn'southward arroyo is a bit novelistic, skipping backwards and forrard in time with sweeping digressions until folio 122 (of 185) when the grouping start work on their 5th leaflet and there is and then a continuous narrative until the cease. Before then things happen at random, not all the leaflets are discussed, we don't acquire how the group came together or what motivated them to search for a method of resistance or why writing leaflets in detail, but nosotros exercise learn of their efforts to attain out and make contact with other resistance movements via the younger brother of a homo arrested for resistance activities (which seems very ameteurish, only information technology seems the Gestapo were not watching who he was getting into contact with, not that any of them could take known that) and a business man in a group discussing the mail-war, post-Hitler ordering of Germany he is strong-armed by the Scholls into writing them a cheque for 500 Reichmark - a fatal error for him since cash is harder to trace.

This retelling is quite novelistic, but not novel like enough to be exciting, neither analytical nor a close investigation to be interesting in an exciting way. Quite why Sophie Scholl gets her name on the front end cover I don't know, she just dominates the story from the 'trial' onwards when she was a absurd as a cucumber and demonstrated sang froid to the finish, how the authors know that they don't say, I wondered if they wanted to write a martyr's life for her - but the account isn't quite that, the martyr I believed oughtn't get caught quite then accidentally, simply rather deliberately.

At the end of the account of the Scholls and their activities (buying stamps, envelops and newspaper in pocket-sized quantities so as not to create suspicions, staying up all nighttime great out copies of their leaflets on a mimeograph, posting leaflets to addresses taken from the phone book) are translations of their leaflets - these are not rousing calls to arms, cracking careers in advertising did not look them had they not been guillotined by the Nazis. One of their group did have an escape programme in case they were to be rounded up past the Nazis - they involved laying low in a PoW army camp for Russian prisoners and and so heading across country to Switzerland, in the event he couldn't become into the camp and didn't have the wearable to get through the snow in February.

So my impression remains that the group was sweetness but silly, writing leaflets was perhaps as effective every bit painting graffiti, not everybody had supplies of conveniently available Jews or Trades Unionists to assistance hide or smuggle away. It'southward not a bad book, though I didn't find information technology especially clear, I do hope though that there are meliorate books on the field of study in print.

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Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly

On 22 February 1943 Sophia Magdalena Scholl ("Sophie Scholl"), 21 years old, single but engaged to Fritz Hartnagel, was beheaded by the Nazis. A few minutes after that her brother Hans Scholl, 24 years onetime, unmarried, met his appointment with the aforementioned guillotine which decapitated his younger sister. Thereafter, their dear friend, Christoph Probst, 23 years erstwhile, married with 3 very young children (the youngest of whom was but iv months one-time) followed suit. They'd been sentenced to die by a Naz

On 22 February 1943 Sophia Magdalena Scholl ("Sophie Scholl"), 21 years old, single only engaged to Fritz Hartnagel, was beheaded by the Nazis. A few minutes after that her blood brother Hans Scholl, 24 years old, single, met his appointment with the same guillotine which decapitated his younger sister. Thereafter, their dear friend, Christoph Probst, 23 years erstwhile, married with three very young children (the youngest of whom was merely four months old) followed conform. They'd been sentenced to die by a Nazi kangaroo courtroom which conducted a trial and came upwards with its sentence merely in the morn of that same 24-hour interval. Their crime: High Treason. What did they do? They founded a clandestine group of mostly young German university students called "The White Rose". Through anonymous leaflets which they printed and distributed first in Munich (where they studied) and and then afterwards in other parts of Germany, mainly through the postal system whose recipients where taken from telephone directories, they had urged resistance to Hitler and his Nazi authorities.

It was but five days before that when the brother and sis were defenseless scattering copies of one of these leaflets in parts of the Academy of Munich early in the morning. They were detained and then later placed under abort by the Gestapo. One-by-one the other White Rose members and sympthizers savage into the Gestapo'due south easily, showtime of whom was Probst. Several others were sentenced to death (including one much love academy professor who continued working on a book he was writing up to and until his execution), while the rest received stiff prison sentences.

The fate of these dissenters, specially those who were condemned to death, was horrific as information technology can be even so, compared to the deaths near of u.s. would likely meet, their terminate can truly exist described as beautiful. Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, a member of the German language nobility who was executed at Dachau for declining, at age 60, to reply a civil-defence conscription telephone call, had written in his diary:

"I never saw these…immature people (of The White Rose). In my rural isolation, I only got $.25 and pieces of the whole story of what they were doing, but the significance of what I heard was such I could hardly believe it…They died radiant in their backbone and readiness for sacrifice, and thereby attained the elevation of lives well lived…We will all of united states, someday, have to make a pilgrimage to their graves and stand up before them in shame."

In 2006, the award-winning German moving picture "Sophie Scholl: The Last Days" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. I watched information technology afterwards reading this book and it was most perfect—
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Prackash
October 14, 2021 rated information technology really liked it
This was okay, I expect this book to be a little more than exiting, I was spoilt afterward reading the Edelweiss Pirates series.
It is skillful to read that teenagers in Germany did fight dorsum, very sad novel but worth reading.
Stacey B
Apr 07, 2016 rated it it was astonishing
A book about a piece of documented history that may not be besides known or every bit popular
during WW2.
Michael
Jul 06, 2021 rated it it was amazing
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Men and women who resisted tyranny, fought the odds, and stood upwards to bullies that threatened to harm their communities. Along with

You may only be one person, merely you lot have the power to alter the world.

Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc to John Lewis, Susan B. Anthony to Janet Mock—these remarkable figures show u.s. what it means to take a stand and say no to injustice, even when information technology would be far easier to stay quiet.

Men and women who resisted tyranny, fought the odds, and stood up to bullies that threatened to harm their communities. Along with their portraits and most memorable quotes, their stories will inspire you to speak out and rise upward—every single solar day. Particularly speaking out against Fascism and Adolph Hitler had to be incredibly hard to do but yet in that location was people who stood upwardly to even him and paid with their life.

Sophie Scholl and Hans her brother along with members grade the White Rose. https://i2.wp.com/world wide web.whatshernamepod... The White Rose is a shining example of resistance to Hitler, only as well of the ruthlessness which the Nazis government showed when faced with any opposition. People who have never lived under a totalitarian government have difficulty understanding how difficult it was - and how unsafe - to organize opposition to the government. The Nazis in detail were organized right down to the street level and people were encouraged to inform on their parents, relatives, and friends to the Gestapo; in short, anyone who manifested disagreement with the Nazis could be in serious trouble. Despite knowing that the likely outcome to resistance would exist death, the member'southward of the White Rose acted confronting the Nazi's anyway.

What a remarkable read on a subject I knew zero most that existed during WWII. The heroes in this story must not be forgotten to remind u.s.a. that we can do tremendous good by bravely taking action when others are brainwashed or afraid. Great book on a bailiwick that I highly recommend.

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Ljuneosborne
I watched the motion-picture show Sophie Scholl a couple years ago and, I'll admit information technology, I was then moved I cried. I knew at that place had to exist books virtually the true story behind the flick, and constitute this book secondhand. Information technology and then promptly became lost in the shuffle and behemothic pile of other books I've read since. I wish I had read it sooner.

The book follows the very true and very amazing story of the White Rose, a group of university students who wrote and distributed leaflets calling Germans to revolt against Hitler duri

I watched the movie Sophie Scholl a couple years agone and, I'll admit it, I was so moved I cried. I knew at that place had to be books virtually the true story behind the motion-picture show, and found this book secondhand. It then promptly became lost in the shuffle and behemothic pile of other books I've read since. I wish I had read it sooner.

The book follows the very true and very amazing story of the White Rose, a group of university students who wrote and distributed leaflets calling Germans to revolt against Hitler during WWII. While focusing on Sophie and her blood brother Hans, it also explores the backgrounds of all the other major members of the group and their contributions to the writing and editing of the leaflets, besides as the dangers of distributing them. These students embodied fearlessness, representing the indignation of people oppressed past their government and the platonic reaction to such oppression. I couldn't aid but feel both empowered by reading this book and awkward as I wondered if I could ever be as bold as these students, how I would act in a similar situation.

The prissy thing about reading books virtually history is that the reader usually knows what's going to happen adjacent. Having watched the movie, I knew they would be caught by the Gestapo, and after a brusk trial, quietly and immediately executed. Even if I had forgotten the ending the book explains their executions in the preface, and had I skipped that, I'd larn a summary of the unabridged story by folio 10. So if there was whatsoever chance of any anger for my supposed spoiler, I promise the book ruining it so quickly likewise spares me! What I was surprised about most as I read the volume was how little the movie strayed from the truth. The true story seems so unbelievable and dramatic, there was little to exaggerate for the big screen. There is a section of photos in the center of the book, among them a film of the back of Sophie's indictment, where she had boldly written the word "freedom"(just in the German "freiheit," of form). If that doesn't seem dramatic enough, at that place is Hans Scholl shouting "Long live freedom!" right before his beheading, a moment in the picture that I was certain was added in for the benefit of the audition.

Even after the narration of the story and all the trials of the rest of the members is over, there is the serial of appendixes, where the texts of many documents concerning the trial are translated to English to read. At that place are all of the leaflets the White Rose wrote, along with a seventh that had simply made it to its rough typhoon before the arrest. At that place are documents of their "crimes" as documented past the German regime of the time, besides as the information they had gathered nearly the state of affairs at the time. At that place are also manufactures that had been published in newspapers well-nigh their executions, besides as one from The New York Times that was originally published in 1943. I also found myself staring at the picture of their duplicating auto amid the appendixes, thinking of the descriptions of the sleepless nights spent copying leaflets.

This book is for anyone interested in the history of WWII, a story with a very strong female grapheme, or a suspense story filled with surprising details and bold characters.

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Jim Leffert
Mar 19, 2015 rated information technology really liked it
Function history, function, biography, and part unabashed tribute, this volume tells of a small, idealistic grouping of students at the University of Munich, calling themselves the White Rose, who actively resisted the Nazis during 1942 and early on 1943, and paid for it with their lives. They produced thousands of leaflets denouncing the Nazis, warning Germans that they would be morally culpable for the government'southward actions, and calling for resistance. At corking danger to themselves, they transported the pamphlets Function history, part, biography, and part unabashed tribute, this book tells of a small, idealistic grouping of students at the University of Munich, calling themselves the White Rose, who actively resisted the Nazis during 1942 and early on 1943, and paid for it with their lives. They produced thousands of leaflets denouncing the Nazis, warning Germans that they would be morally culpable for the regime's actions, and calling for resistance. At corking danger to themselves, they transported the pamphlets to diverse cities all over Germany. From these locations, they mailed the pamphlets to people in other cities throughout Germany and Republic of austria, selected at random from directories.

We recall of Munich as cradle of the Nazi movement, merely it also was dwelling to this daring, idealistic group (which also came to include one of their professors). These young people also risked their lives by painting anti-Nazi graffiti effectually the university and city, including merely a few meters away from the heavily guarded monument that the Nazis put up to commemorate their origins.

Although the entire grouping was eventually caught and the central figures, including the siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed, their pamphlets made their way to the Allies, and who reproduced one and dropped it in large numbers over Federal republic of germany.

It was inspiring to read about the decision the White Rose students took to motion from cloy with the Nazis' ideology and their perversion of German language patriotism, their cede of a whole generation of immature Germans serving in the military, and the mass murder of Jews and others, to taking action, and to read that many Germans (albeit a minority) were unsympathetic to the Nazi cause and some did risk their lives by opposing them.

The book also fills in some blanks well-nigh what life was like for ordinary people living in Nazi Germany and how the reversals Germany started experiencing in 1942 and early 1943 affected morale. These included Allied bombing of German cities and disasters on the Russian front, notably, the surrender of 2 hundred thousand troops at Stalingrad.

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Ade Bailey
Foreign championship as if the book has a central character, it is Sophie's brother Hans. Peradventure the title is a publisher's decision to follow on the success of the Sophie Scholl pic.
Much is theorize - particular conversations, scnes and so forth - but robust imaginative insight is crucial to good history. The book charts not only the history of the White Rose resistance movement but the whole network of interior resistance inside Nazi Germany. There are as well succinct interpretations of German language na
Foreign title equally if the book has a central character, it is Sophie'southward brother Hans. Maybe the title is a publisher's determination to follow on the success of the Sophie Scholl movie.
Much is conjecture - particular conversations, scnes and then forth - but robust imaginative insight is crucial to adept history. The book charts not only the history of the White Rose resistance movement simply the whole network of interior resistance inside Nazi Germany. There are besides succinct interpretations of German language nationalism from the time of Napoleon, and philosophical movements. Overall, this is an uplifting story of courage and sacrifice with the universal dimension which promises that even in the midst of evil, amidst indifference and cowardice and cocky-interest, ther are good people who do good things.
I have yet to look at the appendices which contain the seven leaflets of the White Rose which the group managed to distribute beyond Germany, court judgments, and New York Times reports.
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Anna From Gustine
This book'south title singles out Sophie Scholl, but it's really most all of the members of the White Rose Resistance. In fact, her blood brother Hans was the leader of the grouping, although she played an equally of import function. She was only 21 years onetime when she was executed for her anti-Nazi activities in Munich. She died that twelvemonth forth with her blood brother and other members of the White Rose - Hans, three other students , and a University professor. They wrote a total of half-dozen leaflets during a period of less This book'southward championship singles out Sophie Scholl, but it's actually about all of the members of the White Rose Resistance. In fact, her brother Hans was the leader of the group, although she played an equally important part. She was but 21 years old when she was executed for her anti-Nazi activities in Munich. She died that yr along with her brother and other members of the White Rose - Hans, three other students , and a University professor. They wrote a full of 6 leaflets during a period of less than half-dozen months and secretly distributed them. Hans and Sophie were caught dropping copies of the concluding leaflet at their Academy.

This book is special because it's not virtually the Nazis lonely. The authors write about the political and philosophical history of Germany that conflicted with, but besides enabled, the rise of the Nazis. It'due south wonderfully written and not a downer. In fact, after their deaths, the leaflets were still distributed, read in other countries by resistance fighters, and even air-dropped into enemy territory. This book did not sadden me, but instead I found information technology uplifting. In the worst of circumstances, when everyone else is in the belly of the beast following "group-think," there is still something within humans that tell them something is wrong. Maybe information technology's simply a conscience. I don't know. And to gamble your life for what you believe…..I still can't fathom what drives someone to exercise that.

Here'southward an example of an amazing judgement in the book. Information technology's in reference to the Warsaw Ghetto Insurgence on April 19, 1943, the largest single revolt by Jews during World War 2: "When the powerless and the oppressed, no thing how hopeless their state of affairs, reject to accept the will of their oppressors, we are all touched with grace."

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Megan
Aug 12, 2020 rated it it was astonishing
Aggghhhhhhhhhhh well my eye is lying in a hundred bleeding pieces on the flooring. In a good mode.

Why have I never heard of these people? I mean, I had heard of Sophie Scholl and Hans, but why hadn't I heard MORE about them? And why hadn't I ever heard of the rest of them? Willi and Christoph and Professor Huber and SHURIK? And CHRISTOPH? And SHURIK??

*sobs* Shuuuuuuuriiiiiiiiiiiiiik.

Evidently I do not have very coherent thoughts at the moment. Except that I love these people. A lot. As well: homo,

Aggghhhhhhhhhhh well my heart is lying in a hundred bleeding pieces on the floor. In a good way.

Why take I never heard of these people? I mean, I had heard of Sophie Scholl and Hans, but why hadn't I heard More than about them? And why hadn't I e'er heard of the rest of them? Willi and Christoph and Professor Huber and SHURIK? And CHRISTOPH? And SHURIK??

*sobs* Shuuuuuuuriiiiiiiiiiiiiik.

Obviously I exercise not have very coherent thoughts at the moment. Except that I love these people. A lot. Too: man, did they Dice WELL.

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Wordsmith
My new hero. I'm so glad I read Traudle Junge'south memoirs. If not for her story, when, or fifty-fifty would I of ever heard this inspiring, heroic, horrific tale of these Academy Students ready and willing to take on Hitler, even unto death. A quote from ane of their leaflets, "We volition not be silent. We are your bad conscious." They were known collectively as "The White Rose." Sophie and her brother Hans along with Christophe Probst and their teacher/advisor Karl Huber were beheaded. Sophie was 21. My new hero. I'one thousand so glad I read Traudle Junge's memoirs. If not for her story, when, or even would I of ever heard this inspiring, heroic, horrific tale of these University Students set up and willing to take on Hitler, fifty-fifty unto decease. A quote from i of their leaflets, "We will not exist silent. Nosotros are your bad conscious." They were known collectively as "The White Rose." Sophie and her brother Hans along with Christophe Probst and their teacher/advisor Karl Huber were beheaded. Sophie was 21. ...more
Felicity
My first introduction to the White Rose was via a lecture when I was at university. I was doing a course called 'Europe at War' and we'd reached the Second World State of war and Nazi Germany. I heard about this grouping of students who had written and distributed pamphlets resisting the Nazis and how they had tragically been caught and executed. What really stuck with me though was a story virtually Hans, which is recounted in this book. Hans was coming home from the forepart by train when he saw a young Russian My first introduction to the White Rose was via a lecture when I was at academy. I was doing a course called 'Europe at War' and we'd reached the Second World State of war and Nazi Federal republic of germany. I heard near this group of students who had written and distributed pamphlets resisting the Nazis and how they had tragically been defenseless and executed. What really stuck with me though was a story virtually Hans, which is recounted in this volume. Hans was coming dwelling house from the front past train when he saw a young Russian Jewish girl, a forced labourer working on the railway line. He had his rations and handed them to this girl. She saw his Nazi compatible and threw it in the dirt. Hans picked it up, brushed it off and went and picked a daisy. He placed the package on the ground in front of the girl, and put the daisy on top. He and so told her "I only wanted to bring happiness". He then walked away.

This book brought the other members of the White Rose to life for me and I love them all for their bravery and their condone for their own condom and for caring and acting while the rest of the High german population sat mute. I will, however, always accept a special place in my heart for Hans Scholl. Long Live Freedom.

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Kelsey Gould
Jan xv, 2018 rated information technology really liked it
Sometimes I think I don't need to read any more about WWII, and always I am wrong. With the world today as it is, I am grateful for examples of twenty-somethings that have gone before me in continuing house in their convictions. This volume fabricated me desire to know more nearly The White Rose and the students that comprised it, and to be more intentional well-nigh forming my convictions near God'due south character, justice, and action.
Kathryn
This is an updated version of "The Shattering of the German language Night," recommended to me by Dr. George Wittenstein, a personal friend of the Scholls.

The story is a moving i, no matter who writes information technology, but this new edition was more advisedly researched yet maintains an extremely compelling narrative.

This is an updated version of "The Shattering of the German Night," recommended to me past Dr. George Wittenstein, a personal friend of the Scholls.

The story is a moving 1, no matter who writes it, but this new edition was more carefully researched yet maintains an extremely compelling narrative.

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E Owen
Deeply moving and well written. The book expands beyond the title every bit it also covers Hans Scholl and the cadre of the White Rose members in Munich.

It is abundantly articulate to u.s. the grotesqueness they were fighting against and then I found it interesting to discover they were fighting for and those individual experiences that guided them - Hans Scholl's individual creativity, Sophie Scholl's intellectual curiosity, Kurt Huber's anti-imperialism, Alexander Schmorrell's Russian groundwork, Willi Graf'due south Cat

Deeply moving and well written. The book expands beyond the title as information technology also covers Hans Scholl and the core of the White Rose members in Munich.

It is abundantly clear to us the grotesqueness they were fighting against then I found it interesting to observe they were fighting for and those individual experiences that guided them - Hans Scholl's individual creativity, Sophie Scholl'southward intellectual curiosity, Kurt Huber's anti-imperialism, Alexander Schmorrell'south Russian background, Willi Graf's Catholic faith and Christoph Probst's Jewish family (although these stories were by no ways their sole reasons). Nazi resistance was non monochromatic and ranged in cultural and political motivation.

Nazism didn't thrive solely on enthusiastic political party members, information technology succeeded from tranquility support and those who acquiesced. It hinged on those who saw the evil and wrongdoing but turned a blind centre or resigned themselves to what transpired. It is inspiring to read of the courage of the White Rose that they were not going to be counted with the masses that became complicit with the Nazi system. Freedom is more important than cocky-preservation.

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Jason Wilson
Jan 08, 2018 rated information technology actually liked it
This is a solid and worthy story , though I empathize with those who are irritated by the OTT accolades that inevitably accompany a book with worthy subject affair or question why of the plotters Sophie is the titular grapheme - but then ,why Fawkes not Catesby ?

The white rose were a student motion who distributed anti nazi literature in Munich university and paid for doing so with their lives . Some readers have called them sweet simply naive , which seems unduly patronising ; one tin can see the

This is a solid and worthy story , though I empathise with those who are irritated past the OTT accolades that inevitably back-trail a book with worthy bailiwick matter or question why of the plotters Sophie is the titular grapheme - but then ,why Fawkes non Catesby ?

The white rose were a educatee motility who distributed anti nazi literature in Munich academy and paid for doing so with their lives . Some readers have called them sugariness simply naive , which seems unduly patronising ; one tin see the early on allure of Hitler Youth and the demand to deed on the revulsion that followed this ; 1 tin can debate that they were swept forth by romantic naivety and could take kept their heads down ; but their courage and conviction to fight evil was indisputable and their posterity deserved . The inspiration of existentialism was an aspect I plant interesting , especially when churches were trying to capitulate a merely; in some cases to argue for the Jews yeah , but in others for survival .

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Amy
Jan 01, 2019 rated it it was amazing
Every young person on this planet needs to read this book or be exposed to this young woman's story. I tin't emphasize enough how important this book is and how much nosotros need to take heed of Sophie's example, for our children and their children.

This book affected me in many deep means, but one was the importance of knowing organized religion, philosophy, and how tyrants tin plow them on people, for good or ill.

Another aspect that really fabricated me think was the fact that Sophie was so immature when all of this

Every immature person on this planet needs to read this book or be exposed to this young woman's story. I can't emphasize enough how of import this book is and how much we demand to have listen of Sophie's instance, for our children and their children.

This book affected me in many deep ways, but ane was the importance of knowing faith, philosophy, and how tyrants tin can plough them on people, for good or sick.

Another attribute that really made me think was the fact that Sophie was so young when all of this happened. Information technology is every bit if she knew her life would be brusk-lived, and she lived that brusque amount of time with a mission in listen. As a young adult female myself, I desperately want to alive up to the things Sophie did and how she inverse those around her by doing what was correct in a time when doing so could get yous killed.

She was and nevertheless is an inspiration.

Read this to your children. Talk virtually information technology with friends. Don't let the story of the Scholl children be forgotten because one day, our lives may depend on it.

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megan
Information technology was fascinating to read about a German Nazi resistance group. Even more than then because they were immature students who had grown up in the fervor and brainwashing era. They came to age after 1933 and nonetheless had enough intelligence, morality, and conviction to realize that the Nazi regime was criminal and abhorrent.

Especially in times like these, nosotros demand to look towards the brave people who had stood upwardly to tyranny.

Leslie Moellering
The writer helps you empathise the main participants in the White Rose resistance motion in Germany during WWII by giving some family unit background of each. He helps tie all the moving parts together to know what was going on when and why it came to a head when it did. An interesting read.
Jamey M.
October 28, 2016 rated it really liked it
Honestly the but reason why I started reading this book was because I'1000 doing history fair on Sophie Scholl then this volume was useful and came in handy. Normally I don't really like nonfiction books but to my surprise I really actually liked this one ( so good job Jud Newborn). This volume was extremely helpful on giving me information that was useful to my project. It besides included all 6 leaflets that was published by the White Rose, and a agglomeration of other master and secondary sources which made me Honestly the only reason why I started reading this book was considering I'm doing history off-white on Sophie Scholl then this book was useful and came in handy. Commonly I don't really like nonfiction books simply to my surprise I actually actually liked this i ( then good chore Jud Newborn). This book was extremely helpful on giving me information that was useful to my project. It also included all vi leaflets that was published by the White Rose, and a bunch of other master and secondary sources which made me very happy. Jud Newborn wrote this book in tertiary person and wrote similar he was watching her and the other members in the anti-Nazi group, almost like I was watching a documentary virtually her. Also towards the end the book talks about the fates of all the group members and even their family unit. I knew that about 3/4 of the members were beheaded but what I didn't know is what happened to their families. I causeless that nothing happened to them considering they didn't have anything to practise with the White Rose, but apparently not. Most of them got sentenced to prison house any amount of time in between 6 months - two years, that sounds extremely unfair, because they had no idea what the White Rose was permit alone that their relatives had anything to practise with them.
Overall I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend this volume to people from nearly 6th grade and up. Merely because it is about WW2 and has some gory details included that may not be appropriate for Unproblematic school students.
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David Campbell
I can't recommend this volume plenty... It'south a fiddling known chapter in the German resistance movement during Hitler'due south agree over Germany. It truly brings to life what life is similar in a totalitarian state, and the determination of these brave souls is one hell of a read. Once y'all get into the meat of it, you won't put it down - equally I read the 2d half of the book in one sitting. It'south smoothness and captivation is counterbalanced by excellent historical context, combined with the daily events, inspiration I tin't recommend this book enough... Information technology's a little known chapter in the German resistance movement during Hitler's hold over Deutschland. It truly brings to life what life is similar in a totalitarian country, and the determination of these brave souls is one hell of a read. Once yous go into the meat of it, you won't put it down - as I read the 2nd one-half of the volume in one sitting. It's smoothness and captivation is balanced by excellent historical context, combined with the daily events, inspirations, and journal entries of the group. It is well researched and historical, with a nifty influx of the emotional, philosophical, and spiritual aspects that were instrumental in driving this small-scale group into action.

"If people similar those who formed the White Rose can exist, believe as they believed, human activity as they acted, maybe it ways 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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Tom Emanuel
My review of this book simply consists of the final paragraph, because information technology is nigh all that you need to know about this painstakingly researched, magnificently written work of biography and political leader-spiritual history: "The touch on of the White Rose cannot be measured in tyrants destroyed, regimes overthrown, justice restored. A scale with another dimension is needed, and so their significance is deeper; it goes across the Third Reich, across Germany; if people similar those who formed the White Ro My review of this book merely consists of the final paragraph, because it is about all that y'all demand to know about this painstakingly researched, magnificently written piece of work of biography and politico-spiritual history: "The bear upon of the White Rose cannot exist measured in tyrants destroyed, regimes overthrown, justice restored. A calibration with another dimension is needed, and then their significance is deeper; it goes beyond the Tertiary Reich, across Germany; if people like those who formed the White Rose tin exist, believe as they believed, act as they acted, perhaps it means that this weary, corrupted, and extremely endangered species we belong to has the right to survive, and to go on on trying." Amen. ...more than
Cindi
I'm having a fleck of a time with this one. It assumes that y'all know sure things about German history, geography and culture. It seems to be organized strangely. I'm interested though, and so I'm going to stop information technology.

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This was a difficult book to read. Peradventure if I had known more almost Germany and it'southward history, it would have been easier. Nonetheless, it was an amazing story and I'm so glad I read it. I'm so happy to know that in that location were many High german people who knew what was going on was wrong,

I'm having a chip of a time with this i. It assumes that yous know certain things virtually German history, geography and culture. It seems to be organized strangely. I'yard interested though, and and so I'm going to finish it.

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This was a difficult volume to read. Maybe if I had known more about Frg and it's history, it would have been easier. Nonetheless, it was an amazing story and I'yard so glad I read it. I'm and then happy to know that there were many German people who knew what was going on was wrong, saw through the propaganda and fought despite knowing it could mean their lives. I'm reading another amazing 1 correct at present well-nigh a totally separate resistance grouping.

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Lynda Benninger
My son introduced me to this part of history when he started a coffeehouse called The White Rose 14 years ago. I said I was surprised he would gravitate towards that menstruation of history considering the true stories from that fourth dimension broke my heart, too. When I was 12, I had read The Diary of Anne Frank and it e'er haunted me. This little known chapter in the German resistance motion during Hitler'due south hold over Germany is about this cruel dictator and the determination of these brave immature people I read My son introduced me to this function of history when he started a coffeehouse called The White Rose 14 years agone. I said I was surprised he would gravitate towards that catamenia of history because the true stories from that time broke my heart, likewise. When I was 12, I had read The Diary of Anne Frank and it e'er haunted me. This little known chapter in the German resistance movement during Hitler's hold over Germany is about this cruel dictator and the conclusion of these brave young people I read information technology all in 1 sitting. It was and so riveting , I ordered the DVD from the library. A must-read. Lookout the DVD too. ...more
Caitlin
This is a very compelling and interesting story. Information technology's an well told story of students who determine to resist Nazi-Germany and spread their bulletin to everyone they can through leaflets. The author wrote this story wonderfully and took the time to explicate the groundwork of the members of the White Rose and how they came to exist autonomously of the group. It grabbed my attention in the beginning and kept it till the very finish. This is definitely worth the read and something that volition stick with me in my heed f This is a very compelling and interesting story. It's an well told story of students who decide to resist Nazi-Germany and spread their message to everyone they tin can through leaflets. The writer wrote this story wonderfully and took the time to explicate the background of the members of the White Rose and how they came to be apart of the group. Information technology grabbed my attention in the start and kept information technology till the very finish. This is definitely worth the read and something that will stick with me in my mind for a long time. ...more than
Sean Kennedy
This is a very compelling story, just to tell yous the truth in that location is more in here well-nigh Hans Scholl than Sophie. That isn't a bad thing at all, every bit his story is simply every bit captivating. He shouldn't be given brusque shrift.

However, the story is pieced together with a lot of conjecture on behalf of the authors, equally a lot of eyewitnesses did not live to tell their tales. Most of information technology is pretty self-explanatory, but those who like their history annotated and footnoted might find some lack of sources damning.

This is a very compelling story, but to tell yous the truth there is more in hither about Hans Scholl than Sophie. That isn't a bad thing at all, equally his story is but every bit captivating. He shouldn't be given curt shrift.

However, the story is pieced together with a lot of conjecture on behalf of the authors, every bit a lot of eyewitnesses did non live to tell their tales. Most of it is pretty cocky-explanatory, simply those who like their history annotated and footnoted might find some lack of sources damning.

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Daphne
Jan 29, 2015 rated information technology it was astonishing
I accept been touched utterly and completely by Sophie, Hans, Willi, Alex, Karl and the other members of the White Rose. The others who took up resistance. Who refused to pretend. Dumbach and Newborn have chosen a dangerous and easily manipulated story to tell, merely telling the truth through historical purity (and a thorough appendix) makes the book stronger than fictionalizing ever could. My new heroes. I feel close to them in this reading. I am validating their purpose. Understanding what they st I have been touched utterly and completely by Sophie, Hans, Willi, Alex, Karl and the other members of the White Rose. The others who took up resistance. Who refused to pretend. Dumbach and Newborn have called a unsafe and easily manipulated story to tell, but telling the truth through historical purity (and a thorough appendix) makes the volume stronger than fictionalizing e'er could. My new heroes. I experience close to them in this reading. I am validating their purpose. Understanding what they stood for. Extending the lives cut off. This book captures humanity. ...more than
Amalie
Aug 29, 2015 rated it really liked it
I'll admit I hadn't heard nearly the White Rose prior to reading this book. This is an important book that gives the readers an in-depth understanding of the impact of the Nazi authorities on lives of ordinary Germans during that time and how the German youth saw that Hitler was no good and stood against the Nazi government.

The book is not about Sophie as the title suggests. I recall she has become a icon for these immature people for their bravery and commitment. Similar to how Anne Frank is an icon of the H

I'll acknowledge I hadn't heard virtually the White Rose prior to reading this book. This is an important book that gives the readers an in-depth understanding of the bear on of the Nazi regime on lives of ordinary Germans during that time and how the German language youth saw that Hitler was no good and stood against the Nazi regime.

The volume is non almost Sophie as the title suggests. I retrieve she has become a icon for these young people for their bravery and delivery. Similar to how Anne Frank is an icon of the Holocaust victims.

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Annette Dumbach, is an author, announcer, and University lecturer who has lived throughout the world. .She has received degrees from the City College of New York, the University of Missouri, and the Sorbonne, and currently resides in Munich.

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