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Honestly, as I read this I was thinking how it stacked up against last year's The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. And I was thinking about how those saboteur Churchill Club boys were more exciting than the pamphleteer Scholl siblings. But then I got to the end of this book and BAM. Whoa. I teared up. I felt awful for thinking for even a minute that the White Rose story was tame by comparison. If I had known from the beginning how it ended for Sophie and Hans I t
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Wonderfully accessible history of the White Rose Resistance movement in Germany during WWII. Interspersed with pictures of the Scholl family as well as prominent Nazi leaders of the time.
Recommended for anyone interested in the history of student activism and/or Germans during WWII.
Recommended for anyone interested in the history of student activism and/or Germans during WWII.
Excellent portrait of the Scholl siblings and their friends who founded the White Rose resistance movement against the Nazi government as students at Munich University. I learned a lot about this subject from this clearly-written and well-illustrated work of Russell Freedman.
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