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035			_a(OCoLC)958797330
050			_aDD247.S375A4 _b2017
100	1		_aScholl, Hans, _d1918-1943.
245	1	0	_aAt the heart of the White Rose : _bletters and diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl / _cedited by Inge Jens ; translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.
260			_aWalden, N.Y. : _bPlough, _cc2017.
300			_axv, 366 p. : _bill.
500			_aTranslation of: Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn 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 solution: 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.
600	1	4	_aScholl, Hans, _d1918-1943 _xCorrespondence.
600	1	4	_aScholl, Sophie, _d1921-1943 _xCorrespondence.
610	2	4	_aWeisse Rose (Resistance group)
610	2	4	_aUniversitat Munchen _yRiot, 1943.
650		4	_aCollege students _zGermany _vCorrespondence.
650		4	_aAnti-Nazi movement _zGermany _zMunich.
700	1		_aScholl, Sophie, _d1921-1943.
700	1		_aJens, Inge.
700	1		_aBrownjohn, John.
740	4		_aHans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen.
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