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This post is not mine and I’m not here to take any credit for it. This post was made by one of my best friends jess or you may know her as pizza. This post completely changed my whole view on suicide and also brought a tear to my eye. I think everyone should be able to…
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From “Women Against Tyranny: Poems of Resistance during the Holocaust,” by Davi Walders, published by Clemson University digital press.
Sophie Scholl (1920–1943): German Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans created the resistance group White Rose The organization was betrayed by a janitor at the University of Munich in 1943. After being beheaded by the Nazis, a scrap of paper with one word on it was found in her cell.
One White Rose
What we leave behind
is not the night terror,
carrying pamphlets
through dark streets,
dropping them in corridors
to drift like snow
fallen before dawn,
or the day terror
knowing betrayal
could come at any time.
What we leave behind is
not rage at betrayers,
torturers, those who did
nothing, or those who
sentenced, raised
the ax, watched it fall,
not the awareness
of blood about to flow,
bones about to be severed.
What we leave behind
is but one word
freedom
on a scrap in a cell
and one white rose
laid upon frozen soil.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank (via wordpainting)
How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler
If you’ve never heard of the Ghost Army, you’re in good company. The unit was a classified secret until 1996 — it’s still partially classified — and Rick Beyer, the director of The Ghost Army, only found out about the covert troop of artist-warriors by chance, in a Boston-area cafe, from the niece of one of the unit’s veterans.
Armies have been using subterfuge to fool enemy forces for eons, but the Ghost Army was unusually audacious, and especially good at its job: Designing and deploying inflatable tanks, airplanes, and artillery, plus sound effects and other illusion-spinning tactics to convince the German army that the Allied forces were stronger and more omnipresent than they were.
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