ten years Ago, died a resistance fighter in the third Reich, Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn. A Reminder.
Bad Tölz – she was, in a sense, the last Survivor of the resistance group “White Rose” and has carried its message of moral courage and against Forgetting the Nazi dictatorship to old age. Ten years ago today, Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn died in Bad Tölz. A Reminder.
For sentences like this one was hung in 1944: “Shaken our people is the downfall of the men of Stalingrad. 330 000 German men the brilliant strategy of the world war corporal sense – and irresponsible in death and destruction rushed. Leader, we thank you!“ This is the beginning of the sixth leaflet, written by Prof. Kurt Huber in February, 1943 for students of the Munich University. He and the members of the resistance movement White Rose, including Hans and Sophie Scholl, were denounced, arrested and finally executed.
Marie-Luise Jahn and her fiance, Hans Leipelt didn’t know the White Rose and its members to date at all, writes Schultze-Jahn in her memories, “…and her spirit lives anyway”. The sixth leaflet but had to get Leipelt by Post. “The content was exactly what we thought, but never, frankly, let alone have described,” said Schultze-Jahn, as the 86-Year-old. “Spontaneously, we decided: We must continue to make.”
The Pair tapped the flyer with the punches as often as possible, sided it with the title “…and her spirit lives still,” and distributed it with friends. At the same time they collected money for the widow of Prof. Huber-and were taught – the action was betrayed – in the focus of the Gestapo.
On 8. October, was arrested, and Hans Leipelt. His girlfriend Marie-Luise destroyed everything incriminating Material, was no Illusion. Ten days later she was picked up. There are countless interrogations, fear, and uncertainty followed. “My own execution, I was more and more certain.”
On deep hole contribution to the fight against the Forgotten
After a year of pretrial detention began in Donauwörth the process before the people’s court, “a Farce,” as Schultze-Jahn recalled. Hans Leipelt was sentenced to death. His 25-year-old fiancée came up with 12 years in jail, because your a skillful lawyer represented you as a couple in love Aryan girl who had been seduced by an evil half-Jews. “And I have not objected to”, which made them still decades later, allegations. Hans Leipelt, they learned only after the war, had asked her lawyer to charge him to relieve you. “He probably knew that there was for him no salvation.” Before his execution the 29. January 1945 in Stadelheim was allowed to see the Couple once more. “We talked to the ice-cold hands – we spoke not a word.”
The second life of Marie-Luise Jahn began with the liberation from the prison of Aichach by the Americans in may 1945. The native Ostpreußin studied medicine, married Hans Georg Schultze and led from 1969 to 1988, a practice in Bad Tölz. Out of the deep hole, and a continuing lack of language about past events they could free themselves only after decades, and with psychotherapeutic help step-by-step, in a newspaper interview in 1993, told. Time does not heal all wounds. With the founding of the White Rose Foundation in 1987, the Board of Directors member of the Tölzerin was, began the active work of memory. Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn spoke as a witness in the schools, worked on exhibitions that went around the world, and contributed not to Forget how they had formulated themselves.
Schultze-Jahn worked for war refugees
small, petite lady who never made big fuss about it, and became increasingly involved politically. They set up for war refugees from Bosnia. At the beginning of the 1990s, has struggled in Tölz quite violently to the establishment of a memorial to the victims of the death March. The city Council was against it, both churches, many of the Tölzer citizens and Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn joined vigorously for the memorial, and collected money. On 2. May 1995, was built on the mühlfeld Church the monument.
in 2005, the 87-Year-old was one of the founding members of a working group that made the study of the life-fates of the Nazis killed Tölzer citizens to the task. The Ge(h)the memorial stones in front of the city Museum, go back to this working group. The city supported the working group, the work-up of their own Nazi past, in the meantime, about the Hindenburg-Channel and Stoll REITHER-Promenade – active is concerned, is also to the credit of Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn’s fight against Forgetting. As you at 22. June 2010 died, she was one of a city, County, and state of widely honoured personality. A memorial stone at the district office reminds you. The special educational centre in Bad Tölz is to be named after her.
In death, the circle was closed again. Just as she had wanted it, it was buried in the Munich cemetery at perlacher Forst. At the KZ-honor grove for the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. There is also Hans Leipelt was buried. His grave and that of Marie-Luise Schultze-Jahn are separated only by a hedge.
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