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Impeachment and Other B.S. Stories

Post author By Redactor
Post date November 16, 2019

Behind all other big political news, this week, was the one Paul didn’t cover in these pages: impeachment. There’s a reason why:

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On February 18, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister, were arrested at the University of Munich for secretly (or not so secretly) putting out leaflets calling on Germans to revolt against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

In the previous year Hans had founded a group of students, who called themselves “The White Rose.” The group wrote and distributed six leaflets aimed at educated Germans. The leaflets made their way across Germany and to several other occupied countries. The Allies later dropped them all over the Third Reich.