Great People

I just saw Sophie Scholl the Last Days.

They used the actual interrogations as part of the script. The transcripts were in East Germany and weren't discovered until 1990.

What an amazing woman. She was part of the White Rose. A group who distributed leaflets throughout Germany to encourage the Deutche Folk to rise up against Hitler. She and her brother were caught at the University of Munich. They were taken to Stadleheim Prison (which later housed Eric Burdon from the Animals). She stood up to the investigator and never gave up her friends. She condemned Hitler (in 1943) for killing the Jews and the mentally retarded. She never once backed down even when the investigator tried to give her an out to save her life.

Her brother, their friend Christopher Probst and she were all executed. She was 21.

Amazing courage.