Outlaw leafleters of 1943

[TackleTheWorld]

I was thinking how Russell's arrest sounded faintly familiar.  Then I remembered a review of a movie released about a year ago -"Sophie Scholl, The Last Days". 

Here's an excerpt from wikipedia:

In the early summer of 1942, Sophie participated in the production and distribution of the leaflets of the White Rose. She was arrested on February 18, 1943, while distributing the sixth leaflet at the University of Munich. In court on February 21, 1943, Sophie was recorded as saying "Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

On February 22, 1943, Sophie, her brother Hans and their friend Christoph Probst were found guilty of treason and condemned to death by head judge of the court Roland Freisler. They were guillotined by executioner Johann Reichhart in the Munich-Stadelheim prison only a few hours later at 17:00. The execution was supervised by Dr. Walter Roemer who was the enforcement chief of the Munich district court. Prison officials emphasized the courage with which she walked to her execution.

Her last words were "Die Sonne scheint noch." This means, "The Sun still shines." This was a metaphor for God and her commitment to hope for the future. The film of her last days, Sophie Scholl ? Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days), used the sun to point to her profound Christian belief.

Following her death a copy of the sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany through Scandinavia to England, and in mid-1943 millions of propaganda copies were dropped over Germany from Allied planes, now retitled as The Manifesto of the Students of Munich.

[aries]

Very interesting.

[PowerPenguin]

Was she a White Rose?

[toowm]

Ja