In Germany, the memory of the resistant Scholl is making waves

2021-05-11T23:52:36.135Z

Figure of the anti-Nazi struggle, whose 100th anniversary of the birth has just been celebrated, Sophie Scholl has become an icon of the anti-masks, in the hands of the extreme right.

Pierre Avril, correspondent in Berlin

For having, in February 1943, thrown in the University of Munich, leaflets denouncing the war in the East led by the Wehrmacht, Sophie Scholl and her two comrades of the White Rose group, were guillotined by the Nazi regime.

By her gesture and her convictions, the 22-year-old girl, opponent of Hitler, has become, across the Rhine, an icon of resistance to the national socialist regime, the equivalent in France of a Jean Moulin.

She is as popular as former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

Hundreds of schools and streets bear his name across the country.

A stamp has just been reissued in his memory on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, on May 9, 1921, with these words scribbled a few hours before his execution, which have since entered the legend:

"a blessed and sunny day and yet I have to go.
What does my death matter if by our actions, thousands of people could be awakened ”.

On the occasion of the health crisis, the

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Source: lefigaro

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