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At the Heart of the White Rose Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl
Author: Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl

In May of 1942, with Germany still winning the war, an improbable little band of students at Munich University began distributing the leaflets of the White Rose. In the very city where the Nazis got their start, they demanded resistance to Germany's war efforts and confronted their readers with what they had learned of Hitler's final sol... more »ution: "Here we see the most terrible crime committed against the dignity of humankind, a crime that has no counterpart in human history...

These broadsides were secretly drafted and printed in a Munich basement by a young medical student and military conscript, Hans Scholl, and a handful of young co-conspirators that included his twenty-one-year-old sister Sophie. The leaflets placed the Scholls and their friends in mortal danger, and it wasn't long before they were captured and executed. As their letters and diaries reveal, they were not primarily motivated by political beliefs, but rather came to their convictions through personal spiritual searches that eventually led them to sacrifice their lives for what they believed was right.

Idealistic, serious, and sensible, Hans and Sophie Scholl joined the Hitler Youth with youthful and romantic enthusiasm. But as Hitler s grip throttled Germany and Nazi atrocities mounted, Hans and Sophie emerged from their adolescence with the conviction that at all costs they must raise their voices against the murderous Nazi regime. Interwoven with commentary on the grim progress of Hitler s campaign, the letters and diary entries range from veiled messages about the course of a war they wanted their country to lose, to charming descriptions of hikes and skiing trips and meditations on Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Rilke, and Verlaine; from entreaties to their parents for books and sweets hard to get in wartime, to deeply humbled and troubled entreaties to God for an understanding of the presence of such great evil in the world. There are alarms when Hans is taken into military custody, when their father is jailed, and when their friends are wounded on the eastern front. But throughout even to the end, when the Scholls sense of peril was most oppressive there appear in their writings lovely spontaneous outbursts of joy and gratitude for the gifts of nature, music, poetry, and art. In the midst of evil and degradation, theirs is a celebration of the spiritual and the humane.

ISBN-13: 9780874860290
ISBN-10: 0874860296
Publication Date: 5/9/2017
Pages: 300
Edition: Reprint
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4.3 stars, based on 4 ratings

Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Book Type: Paperback
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jessied - reviewed At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl on 1/24/2023 + 4 more book reviews

This book gave me much food for thought. I treasure books which impact the head and the heart. By the end I felt that two of my friends had just been executed.

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Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical >> Europe >> Germany
Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Religious
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