Producer Jochen Laube tells by telephone that Instagram is the right platform for Sophie Scholl’s story: “She stood for her ideals and wanted to propagate them. If there had already been Instagram then, I can imagine that she would have used it for that. That makes her fit for young people of today, who do the same when they stand up for Black Lives Matter or the climate movement. “
Scholl is not the first figure from the Second World War to get a new life on social media: a YouTube series was already released last year with excerpts from Anne Frank’s diary. reenacted as a vlog.
The project about Scholl comes at a time when people who criticize the corona measures in Germany sometimes refer to Sophie Scholl. Some of them feel that they are fighting for the same freedom that Scholl once did. This sometimes goes too far between the demonstrators. When a woman compared herself to Sophie Scholl in a speech last November, a volunteer who had to guard the order immediately turned in his vest.
Emerging right
Laube says that the project is also there to teach the followers something. “It is a special time. In September we have elections in Germany. We are dealing with the influence of the emerging right. With this account we call on the followers to stand up against that together.”
Sophie Scholl now has almost 600,000 followers on Instagram. The last post will be published on 18 February. That is the day she was arrested in 1943.
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