John AutryFeb 22

February 22, 1943

Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.

There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.

Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.

#SophieScholl

Show threadOyu F'kaFeb 23

@JohnAutry Thank you for this - as you say, very little is known about the resistance within nazi germany.

I know it existed....how could it not, tbh?

Would it be a safe assumption that the white flower she is wearing, (not a rose?), was a silent sign of resistance?

Show threadJohn AutryFeb 23
@Oyu_Fka Interesting question. I'm afraid that is above my pay grade.
Show threadOyu F'ka

@JohnAutry Well, if it's any help, I've just ploughed through Wikipedia, and find no reference to wearing a white flower as symbolic of resistance...and, logically speaking, considering how few they were, it would have been fool-hardy to do so.

Conclusion: Pure coincidence ☹️.

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Show threadJohn AutryFeb 23
@Oyu_Fka Did the same before my initial response.