Sophie Scholl

Should I Really Stick it to The Man? Draft In 1943, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed under the nazi Germany regime. Their crime; treason for being part of the non-violent resistance group against Hitler’s dictatorship, the White Rose, and for distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich. The nazi’s authority between the years 1933 to 1945 was nearly absolute and their leadership ultimately lead to their downfall. However, people can be ignorant on what their…

“Stand up for what you believe in even if you’re standing alone.”-Sophie Scholl. Not many people will stand up for what they believe in if it’s unpopular or goes against societies unwritten rules, but being able to do that shows courage. The book Fahrenheit 451 shows that taking risks for something not many people believe in and standing up for it can change someone’s opinion for the better. In the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag starts questioning the motives of firefighters and whether…

Offering sanctuary to women and children seeking protection from despatch to Nauru would break the law. That is a fact. The important question is whether it would be right to break the law. In healthy democracies this question is frequently raised. Bearded protestor at #LetThemStay rally in BrisbaneIn any society it is common for people to break the law and disobey lawful instructions. People fail to move on when instructed by police, evade tax, drive too fast, keep silent about abuse in…

Anne Frank was one of the millions of jews wronged in the Holocaust during World War 2. She went into hiding in 1942, only 13. Anne kept a diary where she wrote about her experiences in hiding. On July 15, 1944 she wrote the following quote. “ It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in…

Schindler Paragraph 6: Oskar Schindler is one of the most famous Jewish liberators in the Holocaust. He was forever immortalized through Academy Award winning movie, Schindler’s List. The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In…

SCHOOLS AND DEBATES A women’s role in Nazi Germany was to provide more children to fill the Lebensraum. Some historians argue whether they resisted the Nazi regime or if they conformed to their policies. Matthew Stibbe, an entrepreneur and author; says the historical writings are just as controversial as the German resistance. Stibbe even quotes Ian Kershaw on supporting the history of resistance was a main role in Germany’s self-image. This in other words brought out the political…

In what ways, and with what success, did one authoritarian or single-party ruler deal with internal opposition? Existing internal political, military, social and economic opposition in Nazi german was dealt with by both legal and illegal means with varying degrees of success. Hitler’s exploitation of situations and use of violence allowed him to successfully destroy threats from other party’s as well as within the NSDAP as well as potential economic opponents. Violence as a method was mostly…

When a country has felt great strain in the past, political change has always been the route that the people have elected to take. Throughout the twentieth century, and into the twenty first century, movements from both ends of the political spectrum have spread all over the world. From the left came the socialist and extreme communist movements, and from the right came the industrialist and extreme fascist movements. With the 2016 presidential election being held in the United States, this…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrays the prejudiced attitudes and racism, financial trouble as well as the good and evil sides of human beings where in some events fear and tradition can overrule morals. These points are clearly shown in the twentieth century where many events took place such as the Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement and World War 2. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel set in the 1930s that is told in the point of Scout Finch as she matures and loses the innocence of…

attention to the Nazi’s ugly side. The police saw them handing out their paper leaflets with the information about how awful the Nazi’s treated others and arrested them. The two were imprisoned, then later beheaded for treason.[pp. 239, Hans and Sophie Scholl] This fierce reinforcement of not allowing people to voice their opinion on how they feel about the politics around them proves that being approved is an enormous concern for the Nazi’s. Hitler himself is worried about the acceptance of the…