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From the Ted Talk by Iseult Gillespie: The secret student resistance to Hitler

Unscramble the Blue Letters


In 1943 aellid aircraft swooped over Nazi Germany, raining tens of thousands of leaflets on people below. Written by anonymous gnarmes, the leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to fgiht furiously for the future— and to never give up hope.

Their call to aioctn rippled through homes and businesses— and news of their msseage even reached concentration camps and psrnois. It was only after the war had enedd that the authors’ identities, stories, and tragic fate would come to light.

When Hitler seized power 10 years earlier, Hans and Sophie Scholl were taeergnes in the town of Forchtenberg. At that time, fear, podnragapa, and surveillance kept all aspects of life for the Scholl family and millions of other Germans under Nazi control.

Open Cloze


In 1943 ______ aircraft swooped over Nazi Germany, raining tens of thousands of leaflets on people below. Written by anonymous _______, the leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to _____ furiously for the future— and to never give up hope.

Their call to ______ rippled through homes and businesses— and news of their _______ even reached concentration camps and _______. It was only after the war had _____ that the authors’ identities, stories, and tragic fate would come to light.

When Hitler seized power 10 years earlier, Hans and Sophie Scholl were _________ in the town of Forchtenberg. At that time, fear, __________, and surveillance kept all aspects of life for the Scholl family and millions of other Germans under Nazi control.

Solution


  1. allied
  2. fight
  3. propaganda
  4. message
  5. germans
  6. action
  7. prisons
  8. ended
  9. teenagers

Original Text


In 1943 Allied aircraft swooped over Nazi Germany, raining tens of thousands of leaflets on people below. Written by anonymous Germans, the leaflets urged readers to renounce Hitler, to fight furiously for the future— and to never give up hope.

Their call to action rippled through homes and businesses— and news of their message even reached concentration camps and prisons. It was only after the war had ended that the authors’ identities, stories, and tragic fate would come to light.

When Hitler seized power 10 years earlier, Hans and Sophie Scholl were teenagers in the town of Forchtenberg. At that time, fear, propaganda, and surveillance kept all aspects of life for the Scholl family and millions of other Germans under Nazi control.

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