White Rose - 70 yrs ago

On Feb 18, 1943 - the White Rose Movement - distributed their first pamphlets during the dying days of the Third Reich. As Nazi propaganda Minister Josef Gobels was called on the German people to embrace total war in his Sportpalast speech, two young resistance members - Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst where seen distributing materials and arrested. They were found guilty of Treason and executed on Feb 22.

The remarkable thing is it is being resurrected.  On July 7, 2012 Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, who is now 91 years of age, resurrected the "White Rose" (Weiße Rose) along with 8 activists. The speaker in the video is Marc Doll, Federal Vice Chairman and founding member of the party DIE FREIHEIT, a civil liberties party (Bürgerrechtspartei) in Germany which advocates direct democracy. In the video Marc Doll addresses the thinking behind the establishment of the new White Rose resistance.

The new 'White Rose' has two principal messages to convey:

1. National-Socialism was a left-wing movement.

2. The Nazis are back again, today they call themselves "Antifascists.