been arrested and why. and it was immediately clear to my parents that it could only mean the death penalty for them so far to laugh us this new and total trial in kind well and fries lawyer had been president of the nazi people s court the folks he reached for half a year he was reputedly the best known and most notorious judge of criminal cases in the third reich hearings in his court were nothing more than show trials on the twenty second of february one nine hundred forty three fry s lawyer himself came from berlin to munich to preside over the trial against sophie and hans sure. the parents and siblings of the defendants were present in the palace of justice at the time. they knew it wouldn t end well then put it up finished tied then the public defender was called to speak on behalf of my sister he he said he hadn t been given access to the files ahead of the trial. if he would have that
reaching agreement on where and what un peacekeepers will actually be able to do. here in germany there has been a bad tempered debate in parliament about how the nation should remember the holocaust and other crimes of the nazi past the far right party wanted to and what it calls quote the culture of remembrance while members of other parties defended it they accuse the a.f.d. of insulting the memory of history s victims and using racist language. in the middle of birth i stumble upon a tragic story. in general you nine hundred forty three this kneebone family was picked up here and taken to auschwitz father mother eleven year old daughter and one year old son victoria all four were murdered this house was home to the psni was their fate and other should not be forgotten that s when artists from cologne
something against the regime its best known members the hands shaw and his sisters of both students in their early twenty s they were intellectuals interested in philosophy and religion but as they learned more about the nazis crimes they decided it was time to act they type defiant appeals to their fellow germans printed them on a secret press and distributed them around the country in these leaflets the shoals and the other white rose activists called on germans to recognize their moral duty and overthrow the system by passive resistance and then by sabotage spreading ideas like those at the height of the second world war was a very dangerous and courageous thing to do. on the eighteenth of february nine hundred forty three hansen s of the came here to the main university building armed with copies of their latest flyer. what happened next was one of the tensest scenes in the movie the final days which made the white rose better known internationally
fifth anniversary of the nazi regime execution of hans and sophie schol the siblings were members of the white road one of the few resistance groups in the third reich they and four other members of the group paid with their lives for standing up to the brutal regime a reporter went to munich. lived and fought for freedom. today looks like a fairly typical campus with students hurrying to libraries and lectures but look a little closer and you see that this is one of those places where germany s twentieth century history resonates and gives us a glimpse of a different path it might have taken. for a few months in one thousand nine hundred two in one nine hundred forty three students of this university were the core of the white rose one of the very few resistance groups inside nazi germany which managed to organize and actually do
bombers. gen henry h. arnold commanding general of the u.s. army air forces was dismayed the u.s. military couldn t afford to keep losing aircraft at that rate. newcomers to bombing warfare the americans had botched to and from c. . but u.s. bombers would prove their destructive potential in other campaigns in other places . in july nine hundred forty three the war entered a new phase the landing of allied troops in sicily launched a ground offensive and ground troops expected support from bombers. for the u.s. air force this was a second chance italy was less well defended than germany. bought