#Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
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“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?"

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist
Born: 9 May 1921,��Forchtenberg, Germany
Died: 22 February 1943, JVA Stadelheim München, Munich, Germany
#Sophia Scholl#White Rose#Anti-Nazi activist#German resistance#WWII resistance#Gestapo#Holocaust#Resistance movement#Human rights#Conscientious objection#Nonviolent resistance#Civil disobedience#Brave women#Martyr#Role model#Historical hero#Nazi regime#Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (a film about her life)#Courageous youth#WWII history#quoteoftheday
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The year is 2034. Disney announces the production of the show "Resistance: Dooku of Serenno", set during the early days of the Empire, starring CG Christopher Lee.
We begin with a flashback to Revenge of the Sith. After Dooku is beheaded, we learn that he used the Force to supply his brain with blood and oxygen. The movie is visibly retconned - as Obi-Wan, Anakin and Palpatine flee the Invisible Hand, four human parts can be spotted stealthily floating after them.
Dooku, being Dooku, survives the crash and manages to steal away. His head is surgically reattached. Don't ask why nobody else ever stitched their lightsaber-chopped limbs back on. He ends up getting prosthetic hands, anyway. David Filoni said in a behind-the-scenes interview that he thought they were cool.
Previously established canon prevents Dooku from doing anything in-character until Order 66. He lets loose in Coruscant's undercity and becomes the local kooky old man who couldn't possibly be public enemy number one until Mace Windu, freshly fried and unhanded, crashes down in front of him. What a coincidence.
Mace is still played by Sam L. Jackson. He is So Old. He is only there for the paycheck. Disney didn't know how to recast him. He is acting alongside the shell of a man who has been dead for two decades.
After a joke about missing hands that is very funny, the two get along swimmingly. They don't really talk about Dooku's various war crimes. "My droid army would never traumatize a young child," Dooku says with a wink into the camera. Remember to buy your Mandalorian merch.
Mace and Dooku organize an underground resistance on Coruscant in the spirit of the Confederacy. Mace is okay with this. Choice aspects of this arc are compelling, like the fight against fascism under the yoke of cruel state suppression, but tone-deaf allusions to the work of Sophie Scholl cause controversy abroad. Andor did it better. Critics on YouTube who thus far lauded the return of fan favorites and 'faithful casting' tear into the show for pushing the woke agenda.
Nothing Mace and Dooku accomplish has any impact on the Original Trilogy. What were you expecting? The end of the show teases a second season with the arrival of a mysterious woman. Dooku's secret wife. You never knew of her because she was never relevant before. As the final credit music slowly creeps in, she says: "Don't you want to see your son?"
The music swells and we cut to Serenno. The planet has never been mentioned throughout all 15 episodes of the show. Standing in the ruins of Dooku's castle is Dooku's son: back turned to the viewer, gazing into the sunset. Dooku II of Serenno, proud heir, turns his head. He is played by Harry Styles.
Roll credits.
#count dooku#i#I'm actually so sorry I don't know what overcame me#i wrote this in a trance#shitpost
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List of Reich movies! (No description for them because just look it up bro)
Downfall, Stalingrad(1993), Look Who's Back, Inglorious Basterds, The Zone of Interest, Valkyrie, The Monuments Men, Cross of Iron(1977), Das Boot(1981), Conspiracy(2001), Generation War(2013), Anthropoid(2016), Hangmen Also Die(1943), The Damned(1969, Mephisto(1981), Blood and Gold, To Be Or Not To Be, Cabaret(1972), Where Eagles Dare(1968), Fatherland(1994), Sophie Scholl: The Final Days(2005), The Dirty Dozen(1967), Enemy At The Gates(2001), Operation Mincemeat(2021), Flame and Citron(2008), Divided We Fall(2000), Life is Beautiful(1997), Operation Crossbow(1965), Heimat: A Chronicle Of Germany(1984), Before The Fall(2004), Persian Lessons(2020), Land of Mine(2015), Hornet's Nest(1970), The Lady Vanishes(1979), The Night of The Generals(1967), Out Of The Ashes(2003).
Bonus: Shows!
Hellsing, Secret Army, 'Allo 'Allo, The Long Long Holiday.
Have only watched eight of the movies and I'm watching two of the shows.
Let me know if I should add more!
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Episode 38: Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
It's Friday! In this week's episode, we're discussing Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Die Letzten Tage) about the courageous last few days of German resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and their friends. Sophie was part of the resistance group The White Rose, trying to shed light on the Nazi regime's lies. Her story, if you don't know it, is very inspiring, and we encourage you to find out more, watch the movie, and take away that there's sunshine even in the darkest of situations. Listen here
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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Director: Marc Rothemund
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Underrated WWII Movies:
(All of these are based on true stories, but I only added links to the books that I’ve actually read.)
Sophie Scholl: the Final Days (2005)

Tells the story of The White Rose Society which was a secret anti-war resistance organization made up of students and professors at Munich University in Nazi Germany. Kind of a legal drama, the movie takes place when several of the members of The White Rose are arrested for distributing anti-war leaflets at the university and ends a few days after their trial. The movie is entirely in German.
Here’s the trailer.
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose by Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn is the written counterpart with more background details.
Anthropoid (2016)

Follows the Czech resistance in occupied Czechoslovakia and the mission to assassinate Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich. The movie version of the real-life scenario when anything that can go wrong goes wrong.
Here’s the trailer.
The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)

The story of how a family who owned the most successful zoo in the world used it to help hide Jews during the Holocaust. The movie starts just before the invasion of Poland and goes all the way through the entire occupation of Poland and both Uprisings to end after the war.
Here’s the trailer.
Based on the book, The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman who used Antonina’s the wife’s wartime diaries as the main source.
Dunkirk (2017)

About the Disaster at Dunkirk and the fight to evacuate Allied troops. Follows three POV’s between the men trapped at the beachhead, those manning the boats that are sailing to Dunkirk from England to help, and the pilots who were trying to keep the German air raids from bombarding those at Dunkirk. A lot of no-name soldiers, but it follows the very big picture, the scope is very much more zoomed out. The movie takes place over the course of a few days.
Here’s the trailer.
Midway (2019)

Focuses on the naval and aerial battles in the Pacific theater. Though it’s titled Midway, the movie starts at the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and goes all the way to the battle of Midway which didn’t actually happen until 1942. It focuses on a specific group of pilots and naval personnel. It also follows the intelligence gathering for the naval operations as well as a few POV scenes for the Japanese naval forces.
Here’s the trailer.
And a couple honorable mentions:
Band of Brothers (2001)

A mini-series that follows Easy Company of the American Army. It focuses on the men of the company and their commanding officers starting from jump training to the end of the war.
Here’s the trailer.
It was inspired by the book of the same name, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose.
Denial (2016)
Not really taking place in WWII, but a must-watch of Holocaust history. A legal drama about the true story of how historian Deborah Lipstadt was sued for libel when she called a Holocaust denier a liar and she had to defend herself and prove that the Holocaust happened in a court of law. The movie takes place over the course of the trial and follows both Lipstadt and her attorney as they research proving the Holocaust.
Here’s the trailer.
It’s based on the biographical book, History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah Lipstadt.
#wwii#movies#holocaust#sophie scholl the final days#anthropoid#the zookeeper's wife#dunkirk#midway#band of brothers#denial#sophie scholl and the white rose#history on trial by day in court with a holocaust denier#i'd add captain america the first avenger except they montaged through all the wwii stuff#i'd add wonder woman except they deviated from the comics and set the movie in wwi
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History Nerd's Review: Sophie Scholl, die letzen Tage (2005)

"If you and Hitler weren't afraid of our opinion, we wouldn't be here."
Sophia Magdalena Scholl (Julia Jentsch) and her brother Hans (Fabian Hinrichs) were college students in Munich and members of the "White Rose," an idealistic anti-Nazi resistance group. They were arrested in 1943 for distributing leaflets calling for an end to the war and the overthrow of National Socialism. This 2005 German-language film tells the story of their arrest, "trial," and execution, emphasizing Sophie's calm defiance and deep religious faith.
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#Sophie Scholl#Sophie Scholl die letzten Tage#Sophie Scholl the Final Days#Movie Reviews#Doux Reviews
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i am so fucking furious i'm literally about to kill someone
#we're watching sophie scholl: the final days and i'm so fuckin angry that no one acted sooner#idek how to describe it#i'm just pissed out of my mind#cedar speaks
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#indie movies#protest movies#made in dagenham#bloody sunday#pride#korkoro#los lunes al sol#swing kids#battle in seattle#sophie scholl final days#veronica guerin#the wind that shakes the barley#movies
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Women’s History Month - Day Six Sophie Scholl
DOB: May 9th, 1921 DOD: February 22nd, 1943 From: Forchtenberg, Germany “Someone, 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.”
When Germany’s Nazi ideals were on the rise, Sophie and her brother, Hans, were at first very happy participants in the Hitler Youth program. Her parents openly disapproved of the Nazi regime and of Sophie’s involvement in their ranks, and many dinners at the Scholl household were filled with Sophie’s parents discussing their opinions with Sophie and her siblings. They emphasized how important an open and honest discussion was, and Sophie quickly realized how horrific the Nazi regime really was. Finally, due to the arrest of Hans and several other Scholl children, Sophie began her political activism.
In order to attend university, Nazi Germany made it a requirement that all youth were to first spend time working for the state. Sophie made an attempt to escape that fate but was unable to, and followed the rules, but practiced instances of passive resistance during her time before she went off to university to study philosophy and biology.
Her brother Hans was studying at the same university in Munich when she arrived, and she was quick to join him and his friends in their discussions of being against the Nazi regime. They dubbed themselves Weiße Rose, or White Rose, and began to write and print pamphlets that they distributed around campus and around Munich. With the help of friends and supporters all across Germany, thousands of these pamphlets were delivered across the country, making die Weiße Rose appear a much larger organization than it actually was.
During their distributions of the sixth - and final - pamphlet at their university, Sophie pushed dozens of copies off of a railing to allow the papers to fall to the floor below. Unfortunately, she was seen by a janitor, who reported her. Soon after, her brother Hans and a friend of his, Christoph were arrested as well. The three were trialed, in which they took fully responsibility for the actions of die Weiße Rose in an attempt to cover for the actions of their friends. This did not work, and the rest of their group was soon arrested as well.
On February 22nd, 1943, Sophie and Hans Scholl, along with Christoph Probst, were executed via guillotine. Her last words were “Die Sonne scheint noch”, or “The sun still shines.”
Smuggled copies of their pamphlets made their way to England, and were soon subjected to mass printing and distributed all over Germany by plane.
Sources: (1) (2) (3)
#i learned about her in my german classes in highschool and i've never not loved her since#she was a brave young woman and an inspiration to my own revolutionary spirit#and now i'm the age that she was when she was killed#Women's History Month#OP#feminism#terfs please interact#terfs please touch#terfs do touch#terfs do interact#terf safe
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Master List War Material
Hello everyone!
I decided to make my own list about war stuff and share it with you lots. These are all of the movies and TV shows that I've ever watched and books that I read; it's going to be WWI, WWII (with Holocaust as well), Vietnam War and Iraq War related. What can I say, I'm a slut when it comes to matters of war and soldiers, mostly. I'll keep updating it with new stuff every now and then.
I really hope you find this interesting and useful! If you have any suggestions or questions or whatever, my DMs are always open ❤️
MOVIES:
WWI
1917
War Horse
Testament of Youth
1918
All quiet at the Western front
The Eagle and the Hawk
WWII
Dunkirk
Hacksaw Ridge
Midway
Inglourious Basterds
Fury
Flags of Our Fathers
Unbroken
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List (Holocaust)
The Thin Red Line
Pearl Harbour
The Longest Day
The Dirty Dozen
The Pianist (Holocaust)
Anthropoid
Train de vie
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) (Holocaust)
Hurricane
Black Book
Saints and Soldiers
The Darkest Hour
The Monuments Men
T-34
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (Holocaust)
Life is Beautiful (Holocaust)
Elle s'appelait Sarah (Holocaust)
Jakob the Liar (Holocaust)
The Zookeeper's Wife (Holocaust)
Sobibor (Holocaust)
The Photographer of Mauthausen (Holocaust)
At War with Love
Jojo Rabbit
Kapò (Holocaust)
Perlasca: the Courage of a Just Man (Holocaust)
A Bag of Marbles
Where Hands Touch (War/Holocaust)
Naked Among Wolves (Holocaust)
Company of Heroes
From Hell to Victory
The Big Red One
Son of Saul (Holocaust)
U-Boot 96
Uprising
Downfall
A Bridge Too Far
Defiance
The Resistance Banker
Greyhound
My Honor Was Loyalty – Leibstandarte
Ghosts of War
Goodbye Children
Jonah Who Lived in the Whale
Atonement
The Sound of Music
Another Mother’s Son
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Into the White
Nancy Wake: Gestapo’s Most Wanted
Resistance (2020)
Lancaster Skies
POST WWII
Reunion
Operation Finale
The Truce
Sophie's Choice (Holocaust)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Denial
The Windermere Children
VIETNAM
Hamburger Hill
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Last Full Measure
Danger Close: the Battle of Long Tan
We Were Soldiers
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
The Deer Hunter
Da 5 Bloods
Tunnel Rats
Rescue Dawn
IRAQ
12 Strong
The Hurt Locker
Sand Castle
American Sniper
Jarhead
The Yellow Birds
OTHER
Triple Frontier
War Machine
Black Hawk Down
The Siege of Jadotville
TV SHOWS:
WWI
Birdsong (2 episodes)
WWII
Band of Brothers (10 episodes)
The Pacific (10 episodes)
Catch-22 (6 episodes)
Generation War (3 episodes)
Colditz 2005 (2 episodses)
The Liberator (4 episodes)
AU
The Man in the High Castle (4 seasons/40 episodes)
SS GB (5 episodes)
POST WWII
Close to the Enemy (7 episodes)
Restless (2 episodes)
IRAQ WAR
Generation Kill (7 episodes)
BOOKS:
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
La banalità del bene di Enrico Deaglio (for my italian fellas)
L'impostore di Giorgio Perlasca (same as before)
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
D-Day by Larry Collins
The May Beetles by Baba Schwartz
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
The Diary by Anne Frank
Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly
The Big Break: The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told by S. Dando-Collins
If This is a Man by Primo Levi
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi
The Truce by Primo Levi
A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo
Dunkirk by Robert Jackson
Dunkirk by Joshua Levine
Unbroken by Laura Hillembrand
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters and Cole Kingseed
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by Edward Heffron, Robyn Post, and William Guarnere
Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don Malarkey
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Webster
Un anno sull'altipiano di Emilio Lussu (sadly this one is only in italian)
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss
The Sergeant in the Snow by Mario Rigoni Stern
Shifty's War: The Authorized Biography of Sergeant Darrell "Shifty" Powers, the Legendary Sharpshooter from the Band of Brothers by Marcus Brotherton
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne by Martin King
A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us by Marcus Brotherton
The Combat Story of Ed Shames of Easy Company by Ian Gardner
Liberation by Imogen Kealey
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
How Easy Company Became a Band of Brothers by Chris Langlois
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Posted @withregram • @redfishstream This was Sophie Scholl, the anti-fascist who heroically resisted the Nazis as a student in Germany. While studying in Munich, she along with her brother, Hans and several friends, formed a non-violent, anti-Nazi resistance group called the White Rose. The group ran a campaign to spread leaflets and put up graffiti to call on their fellow German citizens to join the resistance against the Nazis. In 1943, Scholl and the other members of the White Rose were arrested by the Gestapo for distributing leaflets at the University of Munich where she studied and was taken to prison. After a trial on February 22, 1943, Scholl, her brother Hans and their friend Christop Probst, all pictured in the photo, were found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. At her execution only a few hours later, Scholl made a final statement: "How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?" https://www.instagram.com/p/CH-DSZAABWN/?igshid=1pzvpl3991b4
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Overlooked WWII Media Master List
An updated list of all the things that have been reviewed so far, sorted into Movies/TV Series and Books. Click the title to be linked to that review. All reviews with links are also listed under Completed Reviews Master List in the Links area on the desktop site.
Movies/TV Series
Island at War 2004
First Light (2010)
The Dawns Here are Quiet (2015)
Spies (2013)
Night Swallows
Snow and Ashes (2015)
Bomb Girls (2012)
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
Battery Number One (submission)
Life and Fate (2012)
Suite Francaise (submission)
My Best Enemy (2011)
Where Hands Touch (2018)
The 12th Man (2018)
Air Strike (2018)
The German Doctor (2013)
Land Girls (2009)
The Frozen Front (2016)
Catch-22 (2019)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Generation War (2013)
Das Boot (2018)
Third Reich Mothers - In the Name of the Master Race (2012)
Operation Typhoon (2012)
Broken Promise (2009)
Garbo: The Spy (2009)
Mission of Honor (2018)
Calm at Sea (2011)
Secrets of War (2014)
The Devil’s Mistress (2016)
Fall of the Innocent (2011)
Ashes in the Snow (2018)
T-34 (2018)
The Catcher was a Spy (2018)
The Attackers (2013)
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Midway (2019)
The Monuments Men (2014)
The Man in the High Castle S1 S2 S3 S4
The Resistance Banker (2018)
Warsaw 44 (2014)
Home Fires (2015)
Angel of the Skies (2013)
Sobibor (2018)
Charité at War (2019)
Defiance (2008)
Books
The Twilight Warriors by Robert Gandt
December 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon
Helmets and Lipstick: An Army Nurse in World War Two by Ruth G. Haskell
The American Heritage History of World War II by Stephen E Ambrose and C.L. Sulzberger
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
The Ghost Army of World War II by Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles
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Nie Vergessen
Yesterday was a cold day. It was cold in every sense of the word. When we woke up and began making our way to the Brandenburg Gate to meet up with our tour guides, a steady chilled rain began to fall. It persisted as we wound our way through the streets of Berlin. Photo ops were now inhibited by numb fingers slipping on screens as we scrambled across sidewalk in search of temporary shelter. So, the day literally began in the cold.
The plan for the day was to tour Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, the blueprint for all other concentration camps to follow. Originally, Sachsenhausen was designed for political prisoners and initially, they were not designed for the insidious Final Solution. Rather, they were designed to get the communists off of the streets. When the Nazis came to power, the Communists were the rival political party and Hitler did not want any competition for the throne. But the communist threat died down, as once they were imprisoned in places like Sachsenhausen they broke and renounced their beliefs. However, Heinrich Himmler insisted that concentration camps just like Sachsenhausen should become a part of the German landscape. Bad people went to prison, he argued, but people who were simply inferior and tainting German blood should go to a concentration camp. And from there, horrors like Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Dachau, and countless other killing factories were gradually built. Sachsenhausen became a model for these other camps, and Himmel even ran the other camps from a T-shaped building in Sachsenhausen.
I had been prepared by others who had visited a concentration camp that it was going to be a heavy day. I had read books like Night and The Diary of Anne Frank and seen movies like Schindler’s List and The Pianist. I knew it was going to be a tough day. But as soon as we were led inside the gates, everything shifted. The wind began to whisper, people began to grow silent, and there was an indescribable chill, not just from the temperature, that stayed on my skin under my jacket. We began by learning about the Schutzstaffel, or as they are more commonly known, the SS and what exactly it took to become a guard at a place like Sachsenhausen. The path to being an SS officer? Terrifyingly simple. It was a position of brute strength, not necessarily smarts. Guards were encouraged to be cruel. The more cruel, the better. They began as 16-20 year old boys who were trained with the ideology that when one makes a mistake, they must be humiliated and punished so it does not happen again. By the end of their training, they were hardened, but they were still boys. However, boys who were ready to teach their newfound philosophy to the prisoners they were now tasked with guarding.
Life in the camp was dismal. Through vivid stories and with the help of a few museums on the grounds, our tour guide was able to stitch together many different accounts from different prisoners to construct what a day would be like in Sachsenhausen. The entire tour, I never truly warmed up. That chill lingered the entire time I was walking through the camp grounds. There were certain instances of cruelty that were so shocking, so horrifying, all I could do was look at my shoes. What could possess a person to act out so violently and in cold blood? To torture someone by pouring cold water all over their body, which is already dressed in a single layer of clothing, in the dead of winter? The guards would even give prisoners the wrong shoe size intentionally. They were starving, stripped of their identity, stripped of their home and their possessions, turned into a number, and for sport, the guards would give them the wrong size shoe? I could not believe it. I have always known evil exists, but this was in a class all its own.
The anguish and discomfort I had been feeling the entire time reached a crescendo towards the end as we made our way to the equally aptly and horrifying named portion of the camp, “Station Z.” Prisoners entered through Tower A, where there was a gate with the signature Nazi slogan written in iron bars: “Arbeit macht frei” which translates to work makes you free. Upon arrival, the guards pointed to the chimney and told them that through their labors, they would meet their demise, and through that demise, they could be free. It was eerie to hear those words coming out of the mouth of a tour guide but to be a prisoner in the 1940s and hear that? I cannot even pretend to imagine.
Station Z was at the very back of the camp through a small gap in the wall that had been added when Sachsenhausen was converted into a memorial and museum. We walked in and to your immediate left was a short building that stood in a circular pit, a dirt ramp led down past the building and into a small circle at the edge. I stopped in my tracks. It didn’t take a genius to figure out what happened there. The narrow walkway that ended in an ominous alcove. It was for a firing squad. For executions. Station Z also had a gas chamber which was nothing short of exhausting to look at. I did not know where to even begin my grieving as I surveyed the area where so many people met their ends. In addition to the gas chamber, there was also another equally horrifying way in which the Nazis carried out murder. It involved a series of rooms meant to resemble a medical check up prisoners had grown accustomed to and as comfortable as they could be with. Once they reached the final room, the prisoner was toId to stand up against the wall to measure their height. When they did so, a small hole opened up in the wall and a German soldier on the other side pulled the trigger. It was an assembly line murder which could be carried out over and over and over again. It was so much. It was all so much. I decided all I could do was take a moment of silence, again, just watching my shoes. Our last stop in Station Z was at the site where about 30,000 Soviet POWs were massacred. It was a mass grave which was marked by seven photographs of men taken by the Germans. According to our guide, those particular men were selected to be photographed by the Nazis because they might look odd, or scary to the German people. We observed a moment of silence here as well.
Since International Holocaust Remembrance Day was only a few weeks back, the entire camp was littered with beautiful flowers. Especially white roses because of the White Rose Resistance headed by two siblings who went to the University of Munich, Sophie and Hans Scholl. They were executed for handing out anti-war leaflets at their university. They were executed for standing up for what was right. Before we left, our tour guide left us with one plea: be empathetic humans. It’s easy to sit back and say that would never be me, I would never have been apart of this but the truth is we don’t know because we weren’t there. Would we be like the Scholls? Would we be the impressionable German youth? We cannot say. What we can do, however, is learn. We can learn about this atrocious era of human history. We can go beyond the movies and the books and go to places like Sachsenhausen. We can be empathetic people. But no matter what, we must absolutely remember. Never forget. Nie Vergessen.
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✨ CURIOSIDADE DO DIA✨
1943 - ALEMANHA
É executado pela SS, aos 22 anos, SOPHIE SCHOLL, integrante do movimento "A Rosa Branca" de resistência ao nazismo na Alemanha.
Ela espalhava panfletos que denunciavam os crimes do regime nazista nas caixas de correio e os colocava em cabines telefônicas e carros estacionados.
Para quem quiser conhecer mais afundo sobre a história da Sophie Scholl assistam o filme: Sophie Scholl The Final Days
#feminismo#movimento feminista#feminista#pensamento feminista#fight like a girl#girl power#respeita as mina#feminist#female
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