When I first heard this year’s theme, “Standing Up in History,” the first thing that came to mind was the Holocaust and WWll. Remembering a book I had read a few years back titled “The Boy Who Dared” by Susan Bartoletti about Helmuth Hübene, the youngest person to be sentenced to death by the Nazi Regime, I immediately began to research other people and groups who stood up against Hitler. Soon after that, I stumbled across Sophie Scholl, a young woman in a non-violent resistance group, and began to investigate her and the group called “The White Rose” (german translation: die Weiße Rose) who between the points of summer 1942 to February 1943 wrote and published 6 leaflets about the wrongness of the Nazis. By this point, inspired and immediately
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I subsequently discovered that all but one of the original members were executed. George J. Wittenstein had survived, and with that I examined any paper he wrote and any picture he took to further my research and understanding of The White Rose. Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees: Historical and Ethical Issues by John J. Michalczyk, ed. Was especially helpful and included a 19-page article by Wittenstein.
Before the topic was chosen, I decided to make a website as I had created a NHD project once before and knew that based on my skills, a visually pleasing informative website that displayed my ingenious ability was by far the best alternative. I chose a sleek theme with a typewriter like font to reference the 6 leaflets created. My website is organized first by a thesis statement and the organized …show more content…
With each passing day since I began my topic, I found it constantly developing with each new idea I had. In the atmosphere of autocratic and oppressive Nazi Germany, the nonviolent resistance group stood up against Hitler when opposition at all was rare and punishable by death. They surpassed Germany, protesting with bits of poetry and literature and eventually becoming international symbols of freedom and nonviolence. Eventually, I realized that all seven main members of the resistance, no matter if they wrote a leaflet, edited one, or simply delivered them were all consequential and the siblings Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, George J. Wittenstein, Alexander Schmorell, and Kurt Huber, were truly heroes for their resistance, objection, and protestation of the dictatorial Nazi Regime. Even their deaths led to more nonviolent resistance groups becoming active in their honor, hardening their role as a symbol for
I subsequently discovered that all but one of the original members were executed. George J. Wittenstein had survived, and with that I examined any paper he wrote and any picture he took to further my research and understanding of The White Rose. Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees: Historical and Ethical Issues by John J. Michalczyk, ed. Was especially helpful and included a 19-page article by Wittenstein.
Before the topic was chosen, I decided to make a website as I had created a NHD project once before and knew that based on my skills, a visually pleasing informative website that displayed my ingenious ability was by far the best alternative. I chose a sleek theme with a typewriter like font to reference the 6 leaflets created. My website is organized first by a thesis statement and the organized …show more content…
With each passing day since I began my topic, I found it constantly developing with each new idea I had. In the atmosphere of autocratic and oppressive Nazi Germany, the nonviolent resistance group stood up against Hitler when opposition at all was rare and punishable by death. They surpassed Germany, protesting with bits of poetry and literature and eventually becoming international symbols of freedom and nonviolence. Eventually, I realized that all seven main members of the resistance, no matter if they wrote a leaflet, edited one, or simply delivered them were all consequential and the siblings Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, George J. Wittenstein, Alexander Schmorell, and Kurt Huber, were truly heroes for their resistance, objection, and protestation of the dictatorial Nazi Regime. Even their deaths led to more nonviolent resistance groups becoming active in their honor, hardening their role as a symbol for