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At the “lateral thinking” rally against the crown measures on Saturday in Hannover, a speaker in the guise of the self-proclaimed “Sophie Scholl” sparked backlash on the Internet.
A video that received more than a million clicks on Twitter and was commented on several thousand times Sunday morning shows a young woman speaking to the audience on a small stage near the opera. “I feel like Sophie Scholl, because I have been active in the resistance here for months, giving speeches, going to demonstrations, handing out flyers and registering for meetings since yesterday,” she said, comparing herself to the resistance fighter executed by the Nazis.
Folder angry at trivializing the Holocaust
After a few sentences a young man appears in front of the stage. “I don’t make files for that kind of nonsense,” he protests, handing the woman his orange vest. It is a “trivialization of the Holocaust” that is “beyond embarrassing.”
The speaker responds: “I didn’t say anything.” Then he starts crying and drops his microphone. Policemen appear and escort the man off stage. The woman can be seen again in an excerpt that was published later. She is “surprised that I was offended by a passerby or whatever.”
Numerous Twitter users “Like” the video, and applause was occasionally heard during the woman’s appearance. But the comment columns also contain outrage and rejection: the parallels with Sophie Scholl are irresponsible, and equating herself with the student resistance group member “White Rose” during the Nazi era is shameful. The young man, on the other hand, receives repeated encouragement. One user wrote, for example: “Respect for the former folder who recognized the mockery of the real victims of the Holocaust and opposed it.”
