Comparison Of Sophie Scholl And The White Rose
In the book, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, a college students Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, and Alexander Schmorell, along with the help of professor Kurt Huber rebelled against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi government. This movement can be easily compared to the Civil Rights movement in the United States during the 1960’s. Both movements were fighting for the freedom and equality of all people. In Germany, the White Rose fought to end the persecution of the Jews and others that did not fit Hitler’s “German Standards” (190). In America, people like Martin Luther King fought for the equal treatment of Negros and the end of segregation. Both movements spoke to the people they were trying to reach with a
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Many if these actions included the boycott of businesses that supported segregation, sit ins, marches, and protests. Martin Luther King Jr. said in his I have a Dream speech, “There is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the Palace of Justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.” He is telling the persecuted blacks, that fighting racism and violence with racism and violence would not solve anything. He believed that civil disobedience would solve their …show more content…
If they were revealed, they would be tried and most likely executed, which most of them eventually were. An example of this is that the White Rose bought supplies like a copying machine, typewriters, and paper for producing the leaflets. They had to find a place near Han’s room at the University of Munich to hide all this equipment (23). If people found out that they were using it to write anti-Socialist notes, they would be executed. National Socialism caused a large mistrust between the people of Germany. The Scholl’s father, Robert Scholl, was turned in by his own secretary who overheard him simply saying, “Hitler was a “scourge of humanity” (18). He was taken in and questioned by the Gestapo, but was
Many if these actions included the boycott of businesses that supported segregation, sit ins, marches, and protests. Martin Luther King Jr. said in his I have a Dream speech, “There is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the Palace of Justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.” He is telling the persecuted blacks, that fighting racism and violence with racism and violence would not solve anything. He believed that civil disobedience would solve their …show more content…
If they were revealed, they would be tried and most likely executed, which most of them eventually were. An example of this is that the White Rose bought supplies like a copying machine, typewriters, and paper for producing the leaflets. They had to find a place near Han’s room at the University of Munich to hide all this equipment (23). If people found out that they were using it to write anti-Socialist notes, they would be executed. National Socialism caused a large mistrust between the people of Germany. The Scholl’s father, Robert Scholl, was turned in by his own secretary who overheard him simply saying, “Hitler was a “scourge of humanity” (18). He was taken in and questioned by the Gestapo, but was