“Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone”
Sophie Scholl died at the age of 21 simply because she was not a Nazi. Munich in 1943 was not a time when it was safe or healthy to condemn the Nazi regime, but she did it anyway; a teenage girl for most of the war, who was not only willing but eager to flout Hitler and his government and his war and his church. Her anti-Nazi propaganda tracts quoted Goethe in a bid to neuter Nazi appropriation of German Romantic culture. She did not stop resisting even when charged with high treason.
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