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A 22-year-old protesting against the government’s crown policy makes a strange comparison between Sophie and Scholl in Hanover; a folder bursts the neck. The accompanying video is circulating on the net.
A participant in the lateral thinking demonstration in Hannover referred to Sophie Scholl in her contribution and caused outrage and misunderstanding. Photo: Twitter / screenshot
Source: @MdBdesGrauen via Twitter
Then there was Jana de Kassel and she felt like Sophie Scholl. His appearance took place on Saturday at a demonstration of “lateral thinking” at Hannover’s Opernplatz. “Yes, hi, I’m Jana from Kassel and I feel like Sophie Scholl,” said the young woman in the winter coat on stage, her voice brittle. Since she “has been active here in the resistance for months,” she goes to demonstrations, distributes flyers and “since yesterday” has also recorded meetings. “I am 22 years old, like Sophie Scholl before I was a victim of the National Socialists.” The voice became even more fragile, but the horror of those listeners who paid attention in history class also increased.
The Scholl brothers and other members of the “Weisse Rose” resistance group, as a brief reminder, distributed leaflets against the Nazi regime. Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst were arrested by the Gestapo for this in 1943, sentenced to death by the NS People’s Court, and killed with the guillotine. Sophie Scholl was still 21 years old, not even 22. A visit to the grave or the Geschwister-Scholl-Platz in front of the University of Munich was recommended to 22-year-old Jana from Kassel.
“I can and will never stop working for freedom, peace, love and justice,” Jana reported from Kassel. But then the conference was interrupted because a young man appeared and showed him a shiny vest, apparently a binder vest. “I don’t make a folder for that nonsense,” he said through his mask. “What nonsense?” Jana asked from Kassel, apparently astonished. “Anyone who says something like this is downplaying the Holocaust,” said the man, who was no longer a butler. “Uh, I didn’t say anything,” said Jana from Kassel. “What nonsense. Like Sophie Scholl? Got stuck. More than embarrassing. Other butlers approached and the police took him away. Jana de Kassel sobbed, dropped her manuscript and microphone, and disappeared onto the stage.
Heiko Maas: Such comparisons minimize the Holocaust
But the news and the accompanying video spread. The folder belongs “to the scene on the left in Hannover”, writes the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. “The staging,” according to the beam, “was supposed to show that the ‘lateral thinker’ movement is splintered and was a deliberate provocation.” Staging? The folder on the left should have reacted quickly, unless it was already familiar with the disastrous comparison between Sophie and Scholl.
Many Corona comparisons go very wrong. In Karlsruhe, an eleven-year-old girl is said to have announced that she felt “like Anne Frank in the secret annex” at her birthday party. I have no idea who gives an eleven year old so much nonsense. Anne Frank, who was hiding in a back building in Amsterdam, died in 1945 in a Nazi concentration camp.
“Anyone who compares himself to Sophie Scholl or Anne Frank today,” tweeted Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, “scoffs at the courage it took to take a stand against the Nazis. This minimizes the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetfulness of history. Nothing connects the crown protests with the resistance fighters. Nothing!”
