First saw her quoted in a great post from a guy named Peter Boettke. Hat tip to Arnold Kling who I found by reading Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit).
Boettke's article led me to learn more about the German woman named Sophie Scholl. I found a movie (available via streaming) on Netflix named Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. It was a powerful story. I highly recommend watching the movie and learning who this woman was.
We saw the DVD. Very powerful witness.
For those not familiar with her. Her is that Freepers review. I agree 100%.
Sophie Scholl was executed by guillotine by the Third Reich after she was arrested and found guilty of distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at her college campus and for this she was beheaded along with several of the other brave young God-fearing people of the “White Rose”, an underground Nazi resistance movement. This is a dramatization of that event, it is a movie that will not leave you and will have you thinking about it for days after viewing. I highly recommend this film. I found myself drawn into this movie like few other movies will do. This is brilliant stuff. The tension becomes almost unbearable. The depiction of Freisler (The judge), which might seem over the top, but is quite consistent with accounts and actual film clips of the trial, maybe even understated. He was diabolical, tyrannical and very hot tempered.
Watch the Trailer:
A beautiful tribute to Sophie and the White Rose.
Tissue warning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkoJgPkFoDs&feature=related
Just picked up that movie from AMAZON - will give it a watch.
I saw it and was deeply moved