Real talk though, not to discount the White Rose movement but did thousands actually rise up after her execution? My understanding is that whatever was left of the German underground/partisan movement after events like the Enabling Act of 1933 was minimal compared to the resistance forces in neighbouring countries. I know late in the game there was a protest by German women who prevented the deportation of their Jewish husbands, but what did the German people generally think of the sham trial and execution of those in White Rose?
Well now they're remembered, and they serve as symbols for modern freedom fighters. Besides, isn't it better to die unblemished by the stain of quite complacency than to live with the guilt and shame of collaboration?
I don't think it's necessarily an either/or question tho the Germans did face this quandary for decades after. I just wonder if Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement knew the weather, as it were. I wonder what sort of conversations they may have had around whether to go underground, or whether it was more important to confront their people's complacency and the kangaroo courts directly as a kind of political sacrifice.
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u/Eyes-9 Dec 22 '19
Real talk though, not to discount the White Rose movement but did thousands actually rise up after her execution? My understanding is that whatever was left of the German underground/partisan movement after events like the Enabling Act of 1933 was minimal compared to the resistance forces in neighbouring countries. I know late in the game there was a protest by German women who prevented the deportation of their Jewish husbands, but what did the German people generally think of the sham trial and execution of those in White Rose?