

Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets-a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends.Īs a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. Drawing on the true story of the White Rose-the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime-The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny during one of history's darkest hours. Readers of The Alice Project and The Lost Girls of Paris will be enthralled by V.S.


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