Germany: The White Rose (TRIH ep 256)
1942 · Resource
This episode tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. Dominic traces their upbringing in a devout, independent-minded family, their early involvement in the Hitler Youth, and how personal readings (Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Augustine, Aquinas) and wartime experiences led them to oppose Nazism.
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)