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Bust of Sophie Scholl in Walhalla
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QUOTE: I've been
thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses
stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory.
And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of
Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their
thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?
[As quoted in Seeking
Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way (2000) by Johann
Christoph Arnold, p. 155]
AUTHOR: Sophia Magdalena Scholl
(9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and Christian
anti-Nazi political activist, 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 (LMU) with her brother Hans. As a
result, they were both executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been
extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work.
She was the daughter of the liberal politician Robert Scholl, an ardent
critic of the Nazis.
Please go to this blog
post to read an opinion of Sophie Scholl.
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