The Nazis Beheaded Her for Practicing Free Speech
Lessons in resistance we should all apply in our daily lives — Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
6 min readOct 12, 2020
To me, Sophie Scholl was a saint. And indeed, another member of White Rose, the group she belonged to, a Russian-German student Alexander Schmorell, was canonized as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2012. Given…