Movie Review-Sophie Scholl – The Final Days/Third Entry

The movie Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, is a movie about The White Rose - a group of anti-war students in Munich who in 1943, one year before D-Day, issued newsletters telling the German people that Hitler was losing the war (due to 200,000 troop losses in the Russian campaign; size of American & British forces). Their efforts were labeled as treasonous and “demoralizing to the troops” and they were arrested; tried before a military court; and executed – all within 10 days. Their parting words were prophetic when they looked at the judge and said, "you'll be facing trials yourself (for war crimes)".
The movie is a moving portrait of a devoted sister and proud daughter of a German Mayor, who decided to try to wake up Germany to Hitler’s disastrous war against the world by writing polemics that were mimeographed and distributed, primarily through the mail. When envelopes become scarce in Germany, the information was distributed to University students so that they would rise up against the Hitler regime. The Final Days is as much about the final days of the Third Reich as about the White Rose group, who fought with words and were cut down in their youth by a paranoid, thick-minded Nazi Party. An important film.