Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780874863444)

The dramatic true story of a handful of students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their lives, now in a stunning graphic novel.

With an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist? The university students who formed the White Rose, an undercover resistance movement in Nazi Germany, knew that doing so could cost them their lives. But some things are worth dying for.

The White Rose printed and distributed leaflets to expose Nazi atrocities and wake up their fellow citizens. The Gestapo caught and executed them. Sophie Scholl was twenty-one; her brother Hans, twenty-four; Christoph Probst, twenty-three; Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf, twenty-five.

But the White Rose was not silenced. Their heroism continues to inspire new generations of resisters. Now, for the first time, this story that has been celebrated in print and film can be experienced as a graphic novel. Italian artist Andrea Grosso Ciponte's haunting imagery will resonate with today's students and activists. The challenges they face may vary, but the need for young people to stand up against evil, whatever the cost, will remain.

Author: Andrea Grosso Ciponte
ISBN-10: 0874863449
ISBN-13: 9780874863444
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.60w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2020
Booklist 02/01/2021 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 02/08/2021