The leaflets are called Flugblätter in German: “flying sheets of paper”. Down, down fell the leaflets bearing the cry: “Freedom and honour!” The Gestapo, when they finally arrested Traute Lafrenz, would ask her about those leaflets. Later, decades later, when streets had been renamed after the White Rose group, and films made of them, and statues sculpted of them, people …
BERLIN — Traute Lafrenz, the last known survivor of a German group known as the White Rose that actively resisted the Nazis, has died. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences to her family Friday, describing Lafrenz as a “wonderful and immeasurably brave woman.” “Your mother was one of the few who, in the face of the crimes of National …
