Reverse Movie Tourism: Munich, The White Rose and Sophie Scholl

  I’ve taken a long time to get to this post, but for a very good reason as the following pertains to both history and “reverse movie tourism.” Read on. 

We drove to Munich on Friday morning, knowing we’d spend Shabbat in town near a famous Glockenspiel and that Sunday we would go to Dachau. However, we weren’t sure much else about Saturday itself. During the drive I googled for significant history about Munich and found the name Sophie Scholl.

I certainly knew that name. When I was in my high school German class decades ago, Herr Curtis had told us about Die Weisse Rose, – The White Rose – a resistance group in Germany, and how inspired he had been to take classes in the University of Munich in the very building where its members had been enrolled. He showed us a film about them which I only vaguely remembered.

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