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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

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Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage) is a 2005 film from Germany directed by Marc Rothemund.It is based on the true story of the anti-Nazi resistance group called the "White Rose". They were active in Munich from June 1942 until February 1943, when six of their most prominent members were arrested and executed. The film depicts the arrest, interrogation, trial and ultimate execution of their most famous member, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl, along with her brother Hans and friend Christoph Probst. All of which takes a grand total of four days.The film won three prizes at the Berlin Film Festival (including Best Actress for Julia Jentsch), and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.This is not the first time that the exploits and fate of the White Rose movement have been depicted on film, but the 1982 West German production Die weiße Rose, while a hit in its country of origin, is virtually unknown to foreign audiences.
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One Last Smoke
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One Last Smoke: A sympathetic matron lets Sophie have a last moment with Hans and Christoph, and gives them a cigarette, which they pass around and take drags on before they have to leave for head-chopping time.
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Sound-Only Death
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Sound-Only Death: The camera cuts to black just before Sophie's execution. We hear the guillotine fall three times a short delay apart, along with Hans hurriedly yelling "Es lebe die Freiheit!"note "Long live freedom!" just before the second drop. His last words are Truth in Television, although the executions were minutes apart rather than the mere seconds portrayed.
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Brother–Sister Team
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Brother–Sister Team: Sophie and Hans.
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Ordinary High-School Student
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Ordinary High-School Student: Ordinary University Student. One of the remarkable characteristics of the White Rose is just how unremarkable all of its members were. Sophie and her co-conspirators were perfectly ordinary students from perfectly ordinary families attending perfectly ordinary lectures and with perfectly ordinary hobbies and interests. The could be mistaken for any of the thousands of idealist students from universities around the world, save that they were living in a time when to be politically dissident was to risk one's life.
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Say Your Prayers
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Say Your Prayers: Devout Lutheran Sophie pauses to pray several times, including just before her execution.
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Two Guys and a Girl
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Two Guys and a Girl: Sophie, Hans and Christoph, although in this case the girl of the trio is the principal character.
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Gratuitous English
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Gratuitous English: The opening scene of Sophie and her room-mate Gisela singing along to a record of Billie Holiday's "Sugar". Terribly.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: Well, obviously.
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La Résistance
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La Résistance: The White Rose.
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The Hero Dies
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The Hero Dies: Sophie herself at the end.
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Face Death with Dignity
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Face Death with Dignity: Sophie, Hans and Christoph are resolute and calm throughout the show trial and even as they are led to their deaths. Sophie is the first to be taken to the guillotine, and as she is taken from her companions, she smiles and says "The sun is still shining."
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Foregone Conclusion
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Foregone Conclusion: Despotic regimes don't take kindly to criticism. Even the title knows these students don't stand a chance.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Curb-Stomp Battle: A handful of pacifist university students versus a murderous fascist regime that had already conquered most of Europe? If you're still having trouble placing a bet, the film's subtitle should clue you in.
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Historical Hero Upgrade
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Minor example. Else Gebel, the political prisoner who is depicted as a fellow antifascist and as sympathetic to Sophie's plight, was in reality most likely a Gestapo mole.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The trio are executed and the remaining members of their resistance movement are mercilessly hunted down and either executed, imprisoned, or deported to concentration camps, but one of their pamphlets is successfully smuggled out of Germany, to be mass-produced and dropped from aircraft by the Allies, and in any case, the audience knows that the regime is on its last legs and the free, democratic Germany that the movement envisions will indeed come into being.
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Sophie's argument against the legalism of Mohr, albeit in fewer words. Summed up by the following statement;
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Honor Before Reason
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Honor Before Reason: The Scholls and Probst are all Defiant to the End to their captors, interrogators and prosecutors, not that it does them any personal benefit in the situation. Any possibility of their survival in prison is erased by their resolute refusal to recant their beliefs in the face of the Gestapo.
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent: Mohr certainly thinks so of his prisoner. All the Gestapo personnel who came into contact with the White Rose were reportedly impressed by their calm defiance.
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Would Hurt a Child
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Would Hurt a Child: During interrogation, Sophie Scholl mentions the murder of disabled children by the Nazis, which fueled her anger against the regime
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Intergenerational Friendship
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Intergenerational Friendship: Else and Sophie.
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Chummy Commies
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Chummy Commies: Sophie's cell-mate Else Gebel is a communist, but she nonetheless strikes up a friendship with the devoutly Christian Sophie, and at one point claims "Communists look out for one another."
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I Have a Family
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I Have a Family: With the full support of the Scholl siblings, Christoph Probst pleads for clemency on the grounds that he has three small children and a sickly wife who has just given birth. It doesn't work.
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Fling a Light into the Future
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Fling a Light into the Future: The White Rose paid a heavy price for their opposition, but their last leaflet managed to get smuggled to the Allies, who printed it in the millions and airdropped it all over Germany thus sending a message that the Nazis could not completely suppress, and in doing so, securing the legacy of the efforts of the White Rose as great heroes of German history.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Beheading, for distributing snarky leaflets.
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Artistic License – History
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Artistic License – History: Little, thanks to the intricate research the crew did, but the policemen's uniforms, while from the right era, are Berlin uniforms. Bavarian policemen still wore blue coats and Pickelhauben at that time.
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Karma Houdini Warranty
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Karma Houdini Warranty: It's not mentioned in the film itself, but Judge Freisler would be killed in an Allied bombing raid in February 1945, when the ceiling of his courtroom in Berlin collapsed and crushed him. note For extra irony points, when the bombing began, Freisler ordered the accused be taken to a bomb shelter so they could be spared and "tried" properly later, but Freisler went back to retrieve their files personally, and was thus the only person who met death in court that day. For extra extra irony points, his body was found holding onto the file of Fabian von Schlabrendorff, another resistance member, who would later go on to become judge of West Germany's Constitutional Court after the war, and the bombing raid was led by Robert Rosenthal, a Jewish former lawyer who would later join the legal staff of the Nuremberg trials. According to Luise Jodl, then-wife of Alfred Jodl, when Freisler's body was brought into the hospital, a worker not only remarked "God has given his verdict", but not a single person objected.
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False Reassurance
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False Reassurance: While imprisoned, Sophie is told by another prisoner that, even if she's found guilty, she won't be executed for 90 days according to the law. But after being found guilty, she's informed that she's to be executed that day.
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You Cannot Kill an Idea
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You Cannot Kill An Idea: Namely, that of a free, democratic Germany.
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Kangaroo Court
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Kangaroo Court: Complete with an entirely cardboard defense, and presided over by the wackiest, shrillest, most fanatical Nazi they could get their hands on.
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Manly Tears
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Manly Tears: Christoph, frequently, out of fear for his wife and children.
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Silence, You Fool!
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Silence, You Fool!: Freisler does it a lot during the process.
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Those Wacky Nazis
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Those Wacky Nazis: Take a wild guess. The most animated of them, to put it mildly, in the film is the Kangaroo Court judge Roland Freisler.
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Chewing the Scenery
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Chewing the Scenery: The tone of the entire film is quite understated and subdued, so it comes as something of a Mood Whiplash when André Hennicke appears during the court scene as the fanatical Judge Roland Freisler, the only Nazi among the characters to whom one could reasonably apply the label "wacky". Truth in Television, by the way.
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All Germans Are Nazis
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All Germans Are Nazis: Well and truly averted. Sophie claims that the fact is Most Germans Are Afraid.
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Politically Incorrect Villain
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Robert Mohr, Sophie's interrogator, is pretty sexist. Leaving aside the obvious, that is to say.
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Doomed Moral Victor
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Doomed Moral Victor: It goes without saying that Sophie Scholl and her fellow Widerstandskämpfer are considered national heroes in modern Germany.
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Badass Pacifist
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Badass Pacifist: All the White Rose activists. As Sophie proclaims during her trial "We fight with words."
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MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning
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My Death Is Only The Beginning: The White Rose were convinced that the obviously draconian measures taken against them for merely handing out leaflets would inspire the people of Germany to passively resist the Nazis en masse.
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Black-and-White Morality
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Black-and-White Morality: To be fair, it really doesn't get much more black and white than "Pacifist College Students vs Nazis". Sophie's initial interrogator, however, is portrayed as being somewhat reluctant of a Punch-Clock Villain.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: All three activists, but Sophie in particular, spend a good chunk of the film thoroughly destroying the claims to legitimacy of Nazism and its supporters.
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Off with His Head!: The three members of the White Rose are executed by beheading.
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Large Ham: The always screaming Freisler which was actually pretty much like this in real life.
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Reality Is Unrealistic: You might think that actor Andre Hennicke as Roland Freisler is overacting. He isn't. We have film footage of the real Freisler at some of his show trials, where Freisler makes Hennicke look positively subdued. And he really did conduct trials wearing a blood red robe and judge's cap.
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Females Are More Innocent: The White Rose take advantage of the Double Standard by allowing Sophie to carry the case full of pamphlets on her person, as it is easier for women to get through SS control points.
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Didn't Think This Through: No one can deny her courage, but Sophie's reckless gesture of throwing a pile of pamphlets into the atrium of the University of Munich, just as the students are emerging from their lectures, was not a good choice.
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Stay in the Kitchen
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Stay in the Kitchen: The Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria gave a speech shortly before Sophie Scholl and her friends distributed their last leaflet, saying that female students should rather have children than study. note  This statement caused resentment among the students, causing the resistance fighters to overestimate their support in the population and it was a reason why the Gauleiter, fearing a loss of authority, insisted on conducting the White Rose trial as quickly as possible.
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My Girl Back Home
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My Girl Back Home: Sophie herself. Her conviction that her fiancé Fritz is suffering and risking his life in Stalingrad for an utterly depraved regime is one of her driving motivations.
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Red Is Heroic: Sophie's outfit make this an odd case where the trope appears side by side with Red and Black and Evil All Over (courtesy of the setting's regalia, naturally).
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Sophie and Hans each give one out. After the death sentences are handed out by the Kangaroo Court, Sophie tells Judge Freisler "You will soon stand where we stand now"note She was wrong, but only because Freisler didn't live long enough to be tried—he was killed in a US bombing raid, and in one of the final scenes, just before the guillotine's blade severs his head, Hans yells "Es lebe die Freiheit!" (Long live freedom!)
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Karma Houdini: Robert Mohr was briefly interned by the French in 1947, but ultimately never stood trial for his activities as a member of the Gestapo, and died a free, old man in 1977.
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Hanging Judge
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Hanging Judge: Roland Freisler, president of the People's Court, who in three years was responsible for the majority of death sentences handed out by the court. Also, he's really loud.
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Secret Police: Much of the film consists of Sophie's interrogation by the Gestapo.
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Rousing Speech: While Sophie is at Gestapo headquarters, one of the agents asks to turn up the radio because he wants to hear the speech. Said speech is Joseph Goebbels' Sportpalast Speech, in which he called for support of total war following the defeat at Stalingrad.
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Oh, Crap!: The Scholls' faces when they hear the words "Halt! Stehen bleiben! (Stop! Stay where you are!)"
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Deadpan Snarker: The movement's leaflets simply drip with snark, as for example when they commend "The Führer's brilliant strategy which sent 330,000 German troops to a senseless death [in Stalingrad]".
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So Proud of You: The last time that Sophie sees her parents, they tell her she and her brother did the right thing and that they're proud of them.
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The Last Title: The subtitle, The Final Days.
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Alliterative Name: The eponymous Sophie. Although her middle name is Magdalena. Also, in a meta example, Sophie's actress Julia Jentsch.
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Germanic Efficiency: Employed to chilling effect by the Gestapo. As stated above, four days. In fact, it is precisely because of their meticulous record-keeping that it was possible to reconstruct the last days of Sophie Scholl and her fellows with such accuracy - a large portion of the film simply consists of actors reciting the interview transcripts and official reports made during the event.
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Comforting Comforter: After Sophie curls up on her cell cot weeping, her cellmate Else Gebel covers her with a blanket.
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Hope Spot: The Scholls are almost released from the Gestapo HQ, but a search of their apartment yields concrete evidence of their resistance activities.
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Insane Troll Logic: Judge Freisler's ranting during the trial is this trope.
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Protagonist Title: Sophie Scholl.
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Heartbeat Soundtrack: Exists at times.
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Tragic Mistake: At Sophie's behest, the Scholl siblings leave every single one of their antifascist pamphlets in plain sight at the university and she also turns back to throw a pile of the leaflets from a balcony in a dramatic (and quite arguably unnecessary) gesture. Ultimately, the two leave themselves no time to escape.
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Hollywood Atheist: Investigator Mohr certainly has shades of this, especially in contrast to the devoutly Christian Sophie.
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Strawman Political: Averted, except in the case of Roland Freisler (who was a Real Life strawman).
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Red and Black and Evil All Over
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Red and Black and Evil All Over: Naturally, given the setting of Nazi Germany, but especially with the case of Judge Roland Freisler, who wears a blood red robe and judge's cap, as if he wasn't Obviously Evil enough as is. This is not an invention by the filmmakers, either, he really did wear that outfit.
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I Regret Nothing: Sophie is given an opportunity to save herself from punishment for her anti-Nazi activities, if she gives a statement withdrawing her opposition to Hitler's regime and crimes. She refuses, and is executed.
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The efforts of the White Rose group to bring awareness and understanding to their fellow students and German citizens ends up getting them executed.
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Velvet Revolution: What the White Rose hoped their arrest would spark.
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: During Sophie's interrogation, as she espouses her commitment to democracy and the equality of all human beings, Investigator Mohr laments her "misdirection", and claims that, as she is young, it may be possible for her to be re-educated and released back into society. She then recounts her training as a nurse, when disabled children across the country were taken away to be murdered.
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