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To: SteelTrap
A freeper posted a thread on Sophie Scholl a few months back. It sounded great so I ordered it from Netflix.
MY God! What a movie. I just had to purchase the DVD after seeing it. Like most, I have never heard or the White Rose until seeing the movie. And I thought my knowledge of history was pretty good.

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjE020YHPkE

4 posted on 03/29/2009 9:16:07 AM PDT by NavyCanDo (Party Like Its 1773)
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To: NavyCanDo
Awesome! Searching on "White Rose" finds these posts:

Leaflets of The White Rose (Nazi resistance)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days[powerful example of faith and courage in the face of great evil]

6 posted on 03/29/2009 9:29:22 AM PDT by SteelTrap
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