Defying Hitler.The film Sophie Scholl Sophia Magdalena Scholl (May 9, 1921 - February 22, 1943) was a prominent member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans. : The Final Days, by Marc Rothemund, covers the last six days of Scholl's life after she and her brother--both members of the nonviolent anti-Nazi group White Rose--are arrested for treason treason, legal term for various acts of disloyalty. The English law, first clearly stated in the Statute of Treasons (1350), originally distinguished high treason from petit (or petty) treason. Petit treason was the murder of one's lawful superior, e.g. . Based on actual events, the two--hour film is compelling in its portrayal of Scholl, who, along with fellow Munich university students, stood up to the Third Reich Third Reich Official designation for the Nazi Party's regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. The name reflects Adolf Hitler's conception of his expansionist regime—which he predicted would last 1,000 years—as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman war machine with faith and conviction, www.zeitgeistfilms.com |
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