three students threw a pamphlet into the stairwell at Munichs Ludwig Maximillian university, the last of six they had distributed decrying Nazism. The young activists wanted to call attention to the crimes being committed in Russia in their name - the mass shootings of Jews, the burning of villages, the barbarity of the war Hitler proclaimed to be without rules in his bid to crush the Slavic subhumans. And their writings recounted the heavily suppressed story of how the Wehrmacht had been stunningly defeated at Stalingrad a month earlier - a battle which proved the turning point of the war. But, unbeknownst to them, a janitor at the university spotted their surreptitious leaflet drop and reported them to the Gestapo, the Hitler regimes feared secret police. Twenty-four hours later, they were under arrest and, within days Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, 24, and their friend Christoph Probst, also 24, were all beheaded for treason.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:09:13 +0000
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