Annette Dumbach, Jud Newborn
Lindau 2008
€ 22.00
This book is dedicated to the men and women of Germany who resisted.
On February 22, 1943 Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and Christoph Probst were guillotined on charges of treason. Two months later the same fate befell Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf and their professor, Kurt Huber.
All university students, Sophie and the others were opposed to Nazism spread, first to Monaco and from there to other cities in Germany and Austria, where six leaflets denouncing the atrocities of the regime and urged the Germans to sabotage and resistance. They called their opposition group "The White Rose."
We do not be silent. We are the voice of your bad conscience. The White Rose will not give you peace.
"The White Rose" was not a structured movement, or had connections with other organizations, was the spontaneous uprising of five boys, classmates and friends, who in the name of Christian principles of brotherhood and justice challenged with few resources available and self-financing power of the Third Reich.
The leaflets were mailed to thousands of addresses from different parts of the city and transported by train from city to city to be posted. Each stamp was pasted a risk to their lives and they knew it, but felt the freedom the highest good, and His name had paid a higher price.
Every time I see a white rose, I think the two of them and their heroism amid the horror. They remind us that even in Nazi Germany were young, although few, who represented the best thing in the world ... The courage, humanity .
Annette Dumbach, journalist and university professor, has worked in New York, Paris and Monaco of Bavaria, where he currently resides.
Jud Newborn, historian, is one of the leaders of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Collaborates with many Israeli and American newspapers.
marinella m.
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