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QUOTE: The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and
inadequate. As I did that night at Blumberg, I'll keep on
repeating it for us both: We must pray, and pray for each other, and if you
were here, I'd fold hands with you, because we're poor, weak, sinful children.
Oh, Fritz, if I can't write anything else just now, it's only because there's a
terrible absurdity about a drowning man who, instead of calling for help,
launches into a scientific, philosophical, or theological dissertation while
the sinister tentacles of the creatures on the seabed are encircling his arms
and legs, and the waves are breaking over him. It's only because I'm filled
with fear, that and nothing else, and feel an undivided yearning for him who
can relieve me of it. (Letter to
her boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel, as translated in At the Heart of the White
Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl (1987), p. 256; edited
by Inge Jens, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn; also in Voices of the
Holocaust : Resistors, Liberation, Understanding (1997) by Lorie
Jenkins McElroy)
AUTHOR: Sophia
Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student
and revolutionary, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in
Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found
distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother
Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.
Since the 1970s,
Scholl has been celebrated as one of the great German heroes who actively
opposed the Third Reich during the Second World War.
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer – Romans 12 verse 12 (NKJV)
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