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At a “lateral thinking” rally in central Hanover against the federal government’s crown measures, a speaker compared herself to Sophie Scholl, the resistance fighter against the National Socialists.
The young woman takes the stage on Saturday and introduces herself as Jana from Kassel. “I feel like Sophie Scholl, because I have been active in the resistance for months, giving speeches, going to demonstrations, handing out flyers and registering for meetings since yesterday,” she says and receives applause.
“I am 22 years old, like Sophie Scholl before she was a victim of the National Socialists,” she continues. You will never stop working for freedom, peace, love and justice.
While she is still speaking, a young man comes up on stage and puts an orange safety vest in her hand. “I don’t make a folder for that nonsense,” he says. “What nonsense?” Asks the surprised speaker.
Other folders are added. “This is downplaying the Holocaust,” says the young man. “I didn’t say anything,” the speaker replied.
Then several policemen arrive, the young man who – at least as the video suggests – was hired as a butler and now no longer wants to be outraged, leaves and calls Jana de Kassel “more than embarrassing”. The young woman on stage turns around, bursts into tears, throws the manuscript of her speech on the ground, and leaves the stage.
After the incident, Jana de Kassel returns to the stage and gives her speech. As in the first attempt, he compares himself to Sophie Scholl again.
Sophie Scholl, a student, was involved with her brother Hans and Christoph Probst in the resistance group “White Rose” against the Nazi regime. Among other things, they distributed leaflets at their university in Munich that were supposed to wake up citizens and prepare for the overthrow of the National Socialist government. In February 1943 the group was discovered.
Brothers Scholl and Probst were convicted of their resistance to the Nazi regime on February 22, 1943, and a few hours later they were executed with the guillotine in Munich-Stadelheim prison.
Maas: “Nothing connects crown protests with resistance fighters”
Many Twitter users liked the fact that the speaker in Hannover was compared to Sophie Scholl, but there were also clear criticisms. Comments under video of the incident, which quickly circulated on Twitter, described the equation as embarrassing. The young man, on the other hand, receives repeated encouragement. “Respect for the ex-butler who recognized the mockery of the actual victims of the Holocaust and opposed it,” he says.
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Strong criticism came from politics. Anyone who compares himself to Sophie Scholl or Anne Frank today “makes fun of the courage it took to take a stand against the Nazis,” tweeted Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD). That belittles the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetfulness of history.
“Nothing connects the crown protests with the resistance fighters. Nothing! ”Maas wrote.
With the Jewish girl Anne Frank, who fled with her family to the Netherlands from the National Socialists, wrote her famous diary there hidden in Amsterdam and was killed by the Nazis shortly before the end of the war, a girl recently came across a coronavirus . Protest in Karlsruhe compared.
The eleven-year-old had publicly stated that she had to secretly celebrate her birthday with friends due to crown restrictions. Then she looked like Anne Frank.
SPD member of the Bundestag and deputy group leader Katja Mast on Twitter called comparisons such as Jana de Kassel’s unbearable.
“Some were allowed to speak freely at the meetings, while others gave their lives to resist the terrorist state,” Mast wrote.
