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- Title
Todesmut und Lebenswille: Die Flugblattaktion der Geschwister Scholl am 18. Februar 1943.
- Authors
Hockerts, Hans Günter
- Abstract
The leaflet action executed by Hans and Sophie Scholl at Munich University on 18 February 1943 has entered cultural memory: The image of leaflets falling down into the atrium is considered an icon of the history of German freedom. There is, however, also the accusation that the action was undertaken recklessly, causing the exposure and arrest of the whole resistance circle. For the first time the exact reconstruction proves that the siblings did not abandon all safeguards, but rather took precautions with an emergency plan. Using new sources, the article refutes the legend that the siblings had acted spontaneously and rashly due to a warning of an imminent Gestapo hit.
- Subjects
TECHNISCHE Universitat Munchen; UNIVERSITAT Munchen; COLLECTIVE memory; GERMAN history; ARREST; EMERGENCY management; ATRIUMS (Architecture); CRIMINAL procedure; PAMPHLETS; RECONSTRUCTION (1914-1939); SIBLINGS; LEGENDS
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2022-0028