In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.

• Embraced by the Hitler Youth
• Rumblings of doubt
• Half soldier, half student
• Leaflets of the White Rose
• "We are your bad conscience"
• "Down with Hitler!"
• Arrested
• "Long live freedom!"
• A voice from within.

In his signature eloquent prose, backed up by thorough research, Russell Freedman tells the story of Austrian-born Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie. They belonged to Hitler Youth as young children, but began to doubt the Nazi regime. As older students, the Scholls and a few friends formed the White Rose, a campaign of active resistance to Hitler and the Nazis. Risking imprisonment or even execution, the White Rose members distributed leaflets urging Germans to defy the Nazi government. Their belief that freedom was worth dying for will inspire young readers to stand up for what they believe in. Archival photographs and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.
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• Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments;
• 1. Introduction;
• 2. Urban, State, and National Capital: Buying, Paying for, and Selling the Games;
• 3. The Legacy of Berlin 1936 and the German Past: Problems and Possibilities;
• 4. Germany on the Drawing Board: Architecture, Design, and Ceremony;
• 5. After "1968": 1972 and the Youth of the World;
• 6. East versus West: German-German Sporting Tensions from Hallstein to Ostpolitik;
• 7. The End of the Games: Germany, the Middle East, and the Terrorist Attack;
• 8. Conclusion: Olympic Legacies; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I.

The 1972 Munich Olympics--remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team--were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians murdered 11 members of the Israeli team. In the first cultural and political history of the Munich Olympics, Kay Schiller and Christopher Young set these Games into both the context of 1972 and the history of the modern Olympiad. Delving into newly available documents, Schiller and Young chroni.