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The
state of abandonment and desolation of the graves is evident.
This is what is called a “National Monument” in Germany! |
ALDO
FIORENZA, author
of the novel
SCHOLL
BROTHERS SQUARE
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz
(subtitled)
The
story of the White Rose
(Die
Geschichte des Weisses Roses)
I
DENOUNCE TO WORLD PUBLIC OPINION
THE
SHAMEFUL SILENCE
of
the highest German Federal State Authorities
THE
SHAMEFUL SILENCE
of
the political and religious leaders of Bavaria
THE
SHAMEFUL SILENCE of
the Vatican State
THE
SHAMEFUL SILENCE AND
DEEPLY
AMORAL BEHAVIOUR,
post mortem and
continuing to the present, of the family, friends and colleagues of the dead:
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Hans Scholl |
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Sophie Scholl |
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HANS SCHOLL,
SOPHIE SCHOLL, CHRISTOPH PROBST, ALEXANDER SCHMORELL, WILLI GRAF, professor
KURT HUBER. |
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I
DENOUNCE THE ABOVE-MENTIONED RESPONSIBLE
PEOPLE,
in particular
for
having acted, for over sixty years, with the sole intention of concealing
the great miscarriage of justice resulting in the executions of the
protagonists - rather than celebrating or honouring their memory - The
above-mentioned protagonists were united together in a resistance movement,
named the WHITE ROSE , brought to trial, and executed by the Nazi regime
for distributing anti-war and anti-Nazi propaganda.
for
having acted scrupulously, with all the diligence and treachery imaginable,
inorder to destroy and bury the memory of these fantastic boys and girls
of the SecondWorld War, together with their philosophy professor
- KURT
HUBER -
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Rather than
celebrating and honouring the assassinated students’memory –
hypocritically remembered using one of their surnames (the SCHOLL
brothers) as the name of the University square and of a pseudo
memorial nearby – in practice, the most shameful and disgraceful
of deeds has been carried out with cynical and intentional
indifference, through incredible disregard proven by the following
facts:
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Memorial
plaque (black on a blackbackground. Practically
invisible!) |
1) AN
ABSURD, SO-CALLED
FOUNDATION
of the WHITE ROSE
(the "STIFTUNG WEISSE
ROSE" situated
in Munich, with a certain FRANZ-JOSEPH
MULLER as the chairman- but who really is this man? What is his
real identity? Is he really that martyr of the German resistance that he
boasts about?)
It
was established with one aim – the opposite to what is expressed in its own
charter, which provides for the circulation and public awareness of the
historical event and its unfortunate protagonists – to oppose in any way,
serious research carried out into the incident and to not offer any
explanation or documentation, nor even a minimum contribution intended to
clear up the hundreds of unclear areas relating to the movement’s history.
Mr. Franz-Joseph
Můller closes up like a clam to every question, gives only
evasive answers, does not offer any clarification and blatantly lies when
he claims that he does not possess any of the protagonists’ written
material (they regularly wrote personal diaries) nor legal documents
pertaining to the trial. However, the very same legal documents, including
the Nazi police’s interrogation reports and those of the hearing when
the death sentence was pronounced, were made public in 1991. In fact, the
victims’ families are in possession of these documents, in particular in
the hands of the only surviving member of the Scholl family, (Elisabeth),
and also the heir (Manuel Aicher) of the other sister (Inge Scholl-Aicher),
who died recently in 1998.
2) THE
SCHOLL FAMILY HOUSE has
been let out to a type of tenant-watchdog who bars entry to any aspiring
visitor. In addition – a fact which is seriously offensive to the
Scholl’s memory- the house seems to have been ransacked, as it is
literally distorted inside, making it completely unrecognisable in
comparison to the original layout. Who authorised this destruction? |
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Hans and Sophie
Scholl house |
3) THE
COMMEMORATIVE WRITING ON THE WALL next
to the front door is faded, flaking and absolutely illegible even for the most
eager passer-by (I’ve been observing it in person for almost four years).
4) THE
GRAVES of THE SCHOLLS and PROFESSOR PROBST,
situated in Perlach cemetery in Munich are squalid and disgraceful.
Just
three rusty iron crosses, a little bit of climbing Ivy to make a two-sided
wall around the graves and NOT
EVEN ONE FLOWER AT ANY TIME OF THE YEAR, even
when all
the other graves overflow with multicoloured plants, evergreens and
bunches of flowers, especially in Spring and Summer.
I
have been able to observe this in person, together with my companion, on
four consecutive visits to the graves in past years, one in each season.
(It
is worth remembering that as early as 1968, the Scholl’s memorial ceremony
at Munich University had to be suspended owing to the protests of the Student
Movement. According to the leader of the protests, the anniversary had
become nothing but a weary ritual, considering that the people in power,
namely the official representatives of the economy and politics, called upon
to remember the Scholl’s sacrifice, in reality regularly betrayed the moral
and political legacy).
The
motto of the youngsters of the White Rose was:
THE
WHITE ROSE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU IN PEACE!
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