Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

The most moving moment in the dispassionate documentary BLIND SPOT: HITLER'S SECRETARY (2005), in which Traudl Junge recounts her brief tenure as the Fuhrer's final administrative assistant, is when she describes coming across a plaque commemorating the bravery of Sophie Scholl and her brother, Hans. Unlike Traudl — who, six decades later, was still attempting to justify her World War II-era actions as those of a young, naive woman who saw no alternative — Scholl was an ordinary German woman who saw that she did have a choice. Though Scholl ultimately paid with her life, she exercised what little freedom she had under the Third Reich to protest the regime and,...