Lack of Discipline

Hans Scholl was arrested at age 19 for homosexual activity, after his former boyfriend Rolf outed him to the SS. In a letter to his parents from prison, Hans vowed to become “something great for the sake of mankind.” He and his fellow White Rose members Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst were executed on this day in 1943 by the Nazi government (at ages 24, 21, and 23).

Hans and his comrade Alexander Schmorell founded the White Rose in 1942 at the University of Munich as an anti-fascist resistance movement. They wrote flyers urging Germans out of their "dull, stupid sleep" and encouraging tactics like sabotage and withdrawal from German institutions.

Nat King Cole (born March 17, 1919) records in the studio.