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A spotlight for a few who defied Nazis

Book, play detail courage, deaths

By Dean Inouye
Globe Staff / November 30, 2006

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In a 2003 poll by German public television to choose the "greatest Germans," nearly everyone in the top 10 can be identified by last names alone. But at No. 4 -- behind Adenauer, Luther, and Marx -- are Sophie and Hans Scholl. (Full article: 825 words)

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