When Julie Mayhew was researching her book The Big Lie, which explores what would happen if the Nazis won, she discovered the stories of the women and girls including Sophie Scholl, who dared speak up against the atrocities
Am I a rebel? Of course not. I’m the hard-working, straight-A student who always came home at the time agreed with her parents. I never wilfully provoked a teacher, never skipped a lesson, was never held back for a detention.
If my school had a yearbook, I would have been “girl least likely to write a book advocating protest.” Yet that is what I’ve done.
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