German Resistance: “Driven only by the restlessness of their conscience.”
Churchill is quoted in a German parliamentary journal as having written of the German resisters to Hitler: “These men fought without help from within or without, driven only by the restlessness of their conscience. As long as they lived they were invisible and unrecognisable to us… but in their death, the resistance became visible…their deeds and sacrifices are the foundation of the reconstruction.” [Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Germans Against Hitler, 3rd ed., Berto-Verlag, Bonn, 1960; Barry Sullivan, Thresholds of Peace, 1979]. But I cannot find the original document and somewhat doubt its authenticity. Can you shed any light? —N.B., England
I am working on a lesson plan for a university seminar at Munich University and heard in a film that WSC spoke in the Commons in 1946 of the deaths of Hans and Sophie Scholl of the Munich resistance group “Weiss Rose.” Does this remark exist and how can I find it?…