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White Rose – the Musical
Marylebone Theatre
THE German word flugblutter translates as “a flying piece of paper.” The subversive leaflets of the White Rose took flight when brother and sister, Hans and Sophie Scholl, flung them from the balcony onto their fellow students at the University of Munich on February 18 1943. This is an excerpt:
“The day of reckoning has come. The reckoning of German youth with the most abominable tyrant our people have ever been forced to endure. We grew up in a state where all free expression of opinion has been suppressed.”
Leaflets were distributed throughout Germany as the White Rose resistance movement spread.
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