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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.78,0:00:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1943 Allied aircraft swooped \Nover Nazi Germany,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.98,0:00:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raining tens of thousands of \Nleaflets on people below.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.30,0:00:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Written by anonymous Germans, the \Nleaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.77,0:00:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to fight furiously for the future— \Nand to never give up hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.53,0:00:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their call to action rippled through \Nhomes and businesses—
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.60,0:00:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and news of their message even reached \Nconcentration camps and prisons.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.72,0:00:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only after the war had ended \Nthat the authors’ identities, stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.99,0:00:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tragic fate would come to light.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.08,0:00:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Hitler seized power \N10 years earlier,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.76,0:00:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hans and Sophie Scholl were teenagers \Nin the town of Forchtenberg.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.94,0:00:47.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At that time, fear, propaganda, \Nand surveillance
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.57,0:00:51.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kept all aspects of life for the Scholl \Nfamily and millions of other Germans
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.57,0:00:53.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under Nazi control.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.49,0:00:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The government specifically \Ntargeted young people,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.07,0:01:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,setting up institutions to regulate their \Nbehavior and police their thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.72,0:01:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As teenagers, Hans was a member \Nof the Hitler Youth
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.67,0:01:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Sophie joined The League \Nof German Girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.01,0:01:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hans rose through the ranks
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.57,0:01:12.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and oversaw the training and \Nindoctrination of other young people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.39,0:01:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1936, he was chosen to carry \Nthe flag at a national rally.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.11,0:01:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when he witnessed the zeal \Nof Nazi rhetoric,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.64,0:01:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he began to question it for \Nthe first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.68,0:01:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, Sophie was also starting to \Ndoubt the information she was being fed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.22,0:01:29.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their parents Robert and Magdalena,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.35,0:01:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had feared they were losing \Ntheir children to Nazi ideology,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.44,0:01:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encouraged these misgivings.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.54,0:01:38.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At home, Robert and Magdalena listened \Nto foreign radio stations
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.25,0:01:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the government first discouraged \Nand later banned.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.14,0:01:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the government churned out national\Nbroadcasts which denied Nazi atrocities,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.86,0:01:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Scholls learned shocking truths.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.58,0:01:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, they were still subject to \Nthe rules of life in Hitler’s Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.71,0:01:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the outbreak of war,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.24,0:01:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sophie reluctantly worked for \Nthe national effort,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.02,0:02:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Hans had to take on army duties \Nwhile attending medical school in Munich.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.79,0:02:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was where Hans met Christoph Probst, \NWilli Graf and Alexander Schmorell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.95,0:02:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Day by day, each grew more \Nsickened by Nazi ideology.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.48,0:02:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They longed to share their views.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.42,0:02:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how could they spread them, when it \Nwas impossible to know who to trust?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.69,0:02:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, the friends decided \Nto rebel anonymously.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.34,0:02:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They pooled their money and \Nbought printing materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An acquaintance let them use \Na cellar under his studio.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In secret, they began drafting \Ntheir message.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.30,0:02:37.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In June 1942, mysterious anti-Nazi \Nleaflets began appearing all over Munich.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.31,0:02:40.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were signed: the White Rose.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.21,0:02:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first leaflet denounced Hitler
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.22,0:02:45.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and called for Germans to \Nsabotage the war effort:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.31,0:02:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Adopt passive resistance…
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.07,0:02:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,block the functioning of this atheistic \Nwar machine before it is too late,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.58,0:02:54.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the last city is a heap of rubble…
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.11,0:02:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the last youth of our \Nnation bleeds to death...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.57,0:03:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t forget that each people gets \Nthe government it deserves!”
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.05,0:03:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At a time when a sarcastic remark \Ncould constitute treason,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.32,0:03:07.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this language was unprecedented.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.55,0:03:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was written mostly by Hans Scholl.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.58,0:03:15.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1942, Sophie came to Munich knowing \Nnothing of her brother’s activities.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.61,0:03:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She soon encountered the \Nleaflets at school.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.94,0:03:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was not until she discovered \Nevidence in Han’s room
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.18,0:03:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she realized who’d written them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.35,0:03:28.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her shock soon gave way to resolve: \Nshe wanted in.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.09,0:03:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For both siblings, it was time to escalate\Nthe fury that had been brewing for years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.57,0:03:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From June 1942 to February 1943, \Nthe group worked feverishly.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.33,0:03:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While the Gestapo searched for leads,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.37,0:03:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the White Rose were constantly on guard.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.02,0:03:50.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The war raged on. Regulations tightened, \Nand Munich suffered air raids.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.45,0:03:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the White Rose ventured \Ndeeper into conspiracy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.75,0:03:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They graffitied buildings and braved \Ntrains swarming with Gestapo.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.20,0:04:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the winter of 1942,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.47,0:04:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hans made a treacherous journey to \Nthe Czechoslovakian border
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.04,0:04:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet anti-Nazi rebels.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.34,0:04:09.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On February 18, 1943,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.15,0:04:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sophie and Hans brought a suitcase \Nof leaflets to their university.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.13,0:04:17.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A custodian noticed what they were doing \Nand reported them to the Gestapo.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.55,0:04:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both calmly denied any involvement—
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.95,0:04:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until the police gathered all the leaflets\Nand placed them back in the empty case,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.41,0:04:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they fit perfectly.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.12,0:04:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Hans and Sophie confessed,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.15,0:04:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were immediately led to court \Nand sentenced to death by guillotine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.83,0:04:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite a grueling interrogation, the two \Nrefused to betray their co-conspirators.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.70,0:04:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before her execution, Sophie declared \Nher fury at the state of her country.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.56,0:04:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But she also spoke to a \Nmore hopeful future:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.03,0:04:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“How can we expect righteousness to \Nprevail when there is hardly anyone
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.31,0:04:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,willing to give himself up individually \Nto a righteous cause?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.23,0:05:00.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.11,0:05:03.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what does my death matter, \Nif through us,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.15,0:05:07.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of people are awakened \Nand stirred to action?”