February 18, 1943 – Gestapo Headquarters. Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans are being interrogated in separate rooms. Sophie is worried. Are her lies matching her brother’s lies? Does Herr Mohr believe her? Does he really think she has no idea who distributed the leaflets denouncing Hitler and the regime? Can she pull this off? So begins a series of flashbacks telling the real story of Sophie, her brother, her friends and the White Rose group. At first, the young people in Germany believed Hitler would bring great changes to their country, giving them great opportunities. But as the years pass and the young people realize German youth are fighting and dying for a lost cause, Sophie and her friends believe they cannot sit idly by. Something must be done. This novel in verse tells the story of the real White Rose group and its very real members, young people who hoped to stop the atrocities being carried out by Hitler.
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