Revolt of the White Rose

Law and Liberty ^ | March 30, 2021 | Spencer Klavan

[CheshireTheCat]

....The Calabrian artist Andrea Grosso Ciponte has avoided making any specific comparisons between the present day and the stirring true story behind Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel. As a result the book itself is mercifully free of self-serious references to our own times. The narrative proceeds with a spare and haunting economy: siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl join forces with fellow university students in Hamburg, Freiburg, Berlin, and Vienna to undermine Hitler’s oppressive regime from within. They read forbidden books, gather beneath the moonlit trees of Munich’s English Garden, and—most famously—distribute six leaflets urging fellow dissenters to “dissociate yourselves from National Socialist gangsters.”

In Germany, the White Rose opposition movement has been dramatized on film: Percy Adlon’s Fünf Letzte Tage (Five Last Days) and Michael Verhoeven’s Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose) both came out in 1982; Marc Rothemund’s Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Last Days) appeared in 2005. But it is a testament to our flippancy about the Holocaust that few Americans actually know the story of this or any other resistance movement.

Hans Scholl had seen the ghoulish treatment of Polish Jews firsthand as a soldier on the Eastern front. The White Rose leaflets express his horror at his countrymen’s ignorance and complacency: “In the aftermath a terrible but just judgment will be meted out to those who stayed in hiding, who were cowardly and hesitant.” The sixth pamphlet, distributed after Germany’s resounding defeat at Stalingrad in 1943, got the group discovered by a janitor, who turned them over to authorities. Both Scholl siblings and their main co-conspirators—Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Kurt Huber, and Willi Graf—were gruesomely executed by the state.

It’s one of those true stories that reads like a myth—a grand and poignant tale of defiance in the face of dire persecution....

[CheshireTheCat]

The various movies about the White Rose are all very good.

I hope this graphic novel makes some headway with young people, although it sounds as if it does have a couple problematic points.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Slyfox]

This is Professor Kurt Huber who introduced his students to Thomas Aquinas and other great philosophers.

He reminds me of William F. Buckley.

[Slyfox]

A good synopsis:

https://spartacus-educational.com/GERhuberK.htm

[dfwgator]

The guy who played Freisler in Sophie Scholl : The Final Days really nailed him. Also the interrogator was really good too.

[Fiji Hill]

There’s an underground patriotic movement in Southern California called the White Rose. They place stickers with messages such as “masks are for slaves” and “open our schools!” on bus stops, park benches, light poles, etc.

[House Atreides]

“He reminds me of William F. Buckley.”
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Wow! I’ll say.

[Slyfox]

I was on the founding board of a pro-life woman’s center in Dallas and we called it “The White Rose.”