The White Rose is a German film made in 1982 about a group of German students who wrote and distributed The White Rose newsletter at Munich University during the middle part of WWII. Hans (left) and Sophie Scholl (center), and another student, Christoph Probst (right) were killed for treason in 1943. The court reversed the rulings after this film was released. There is a book by the same name with the original articles and some history by Hans and Sophie's sister, Inge. The film shows the resistance movement from within German. Most films about WWII are about surrounding countries resisting occupation. It makes this film distinct in that the characters had to make the hard choice to hope and work for their own government's and military's downfall. In the end, they were willing to die for their views. It is a challenging film. It helps the audience to think about their own civic responsibility, and how one's citizenship is an opportunity to do good and make positive change. To often the responsibility overwhelms us and we are likely to fall into apathy.
June 27, 2005
Die Weiße Rose - 7
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I've used The White Rose often in my teaching, usually alongside a reading of Steven Garber's book "The Fabric of Faithfulness," in which I first read about this movie.
That is the same way I heard about it. It was also interesting to watch this film with 2 Kent State students whose main interests are in anarchist theory and activism.
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