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Always Repeating Itself

A photo of Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans in a Wehrmacht uniform and Christoph Probst who is writing on a notepad. She is looking at Christoph and has a flower pinned to her clothing.

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start."

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sophie Scholl. If you don’t know her story, Sophie and her brother Hans and three friends, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Jurgen Wittenstein and Christoph Probst (among others) were a group of university students who undertook a campaign of passive resistance against the

Monuments Man

I learned about real-life Monuments Man James Rorimer when I was doing research for The Roses Underneath. I became fascinated with his story - a Harvard-educated curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who signed up as an infantry man but was quickly recruited into the newly formed Monuments Fine

Who's that guy?

Who's that guy?

I am fascinated by the cool cat on the left side of the famous photo of Monuments Man James Rorimer and the recovered painting Time and the Old Woman by Goya. He's not named in any description that I can find and he looks like he just wandered