Today, every German knows the story of The White Rose:

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A square at the University of Munich is named after Hans and Sophie Scholl. And there are streets, squares, and schools all over Germany named for the members of The White Rose. The German movie The White Rose is now found in video stores in Germany and the United States.

One day in 1942, copies of a leaflet entitled “The White Rose” suddenly appeared at the University of Munich. The leaflet contained an anonymous essay that said that the Nazi system had slowly imprisoned the German people and was now destroying them. The Nazi regime had turned evil. It was time, the essay said, for Germans to rise up and resist the tyranny of their own government. At the bottom of the essay, the following request appeared: “Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them.”

The leaflet caused a tremendous stir among the student body. It was the first time that internal dissent against the Nazi regime had surfaced in Germany. The essay had been secretly written and distributed by Hans Scholl and his friends.

Another leaflet appeared soon afterward. And then another. And another. Ultimately, there were six leaflets published and distributed by Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends.

Students at the University of Hamburg began copying and distributing them. Copies began turning up in different parts of Germany and Austria.

One day, February 18, 1943, Hans' and Sophie's luck ran out. They were caught leaving pamphlets at the University of Munich and were arrested.

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Blind Spot is the story of Traudl Junge, a secretary employed by Adolf Hitler, who joined his staff in 1942 as an impressionable young woman in her early twenties, and worked for him until his death in 1945. She was one of the few people to witness Hitler's last days in his armoured bunker, and she was also the secretary to whom Hitler dictated his last will and testament.