judnewborn

Wonder how many of you know of Sophie & Hans Scholl & the White Rose German 'student' anti-Nazi resistance? And - DISCLOSURE - would like to hear an inspiring 75th Anniversary multimedia lecture 'performance' about them with which I'm criss-crossing the country - SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: THE WHITE ROSE RESISTANCE - AND HEROES IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM TODAY. Goes with a Special 75th Anniversaty Edition of my book, "Sophie Scholl & the White Rose." http://amzn.to/2BzkGpr

*I tell their story with *stirring music, *80 compelling slides, & *suspenseful storytelling with *theatrical techniques. It's urgently relevant given today's most burning issues - from the global threat of jihadist terror attacks to the rise of the so-called "alt-Right" neo-Nazi White Supremacists at home.

Sadly, I've NEVER been invited to do it for the military (whether an elite school or any other venue), even tho I have a special affinity to the Armed Services: my Dad was a Chief Squadron Navigator in the Aleutian campaign - a difficult job since there were constant white-outs & it was his task to get the entire squadron out & back safely, along with honing in on targets - with a mountain rising at the end of a short runway. And all without radar! (When he saw the moon, he'd say, 'Oh, you beauty!")

Also - believing one should 'walk the walk,' not just 'talk the talk' - *I hunted down former SS officers during my 3 years of fieldwork in Europe. I volunteered to work undercover as a young man for Poland's "Solidarity" Freedom Movement in 1982, just months after the Communist Declaration of Martial Rule & the sealing of Poland's borders - getting out without being arrested or losing my research material - & reporting to Radio Free Europe's Poland Desk. *I broke thru an Arab Block barrier to do the 1st lecture on the Holocaust ever held at the UN, when I also called out against their abandonment of the innocent to Serbian fascist mass murder (they withheld my $50 honorarium because "I was supposed to have been neutral."

My publisher is just releasing a special 75th Anniversary Edition of my book that tells this true story. ( http://amzn.to/2BzkGpr ) It's 75 years since Feb. 18, 1943, when Sophie & older brother Hans - former Hitler Youth leaders! - culminated their 9 month staccato burst of daringly distributing 6 passionate leaflets across "Greater Germany" - by entering the University of Munich's vast empty atrium, & from the highest gallery possible, tossed down hundreds of leaflets on the heads of students milling about below. This was the ONLY full-fledged protest by Germans against Nazism EVER to occur. Spotted by a janitor, they were hauled off for grueling interrogation by the Gestapo, then vilified in a show trial by the Third Reich's "Hanging Judge" (flown down from Berlin at an outraged Hitler's personal behest) - and condemned to death. Then they & another comrade were each led separately across the prison courtyard to a small room. There they were beheaded.

So do you think the White Rose Resistance would be a big draw? *Any one want to advocate an exciting, motivating lecture program by me? Or advice on who exactly- a name, email, phone - to contact? Thanks ALL! - Jud