Elena Perekrestov: Alexander Schmorell, Saint of the German Resistance, Holy Trinity Publications, Jordanville (New York)
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At the height of World War II, a small band of students in Munich,
Germany, formed a clandestine organization called the White Rose, which
exposed the Nazi regime’s murderous atrocities and called for its
overthrow. In its first anti-Nazi tract, the group wrote, “...Nothing is
so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be ‘governed’
without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base
instinct...” The students risked everything to struggle against a world
that had lost its moorings. Early in 1943 key members of the group were
discovered and executed. Among those put to death was Alexander
Schmorell, a young man of Russian birth whose family came to Germany
when he was a small boy. This biography eloquently recounts the journey
of an energetic and talented young man who loved life but who, deeply
inspired by his Orthodox Christian faith, was willing to sacrifice it as
a testimony to his faith in God that had taught him to love beauty and
freedom, both of which the Nazis sought to destroy. In 2012, the Russian
Orthodox Church officially recognized him as a martyr and saint. The
story of Alexander’s life and death is made available to English readers
here for the first time, vividly illustrated with black and white
photographs.
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