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Sophie Scholl on Moses
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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.
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