In German, the leaflets are called Flügblatter, which means flying sheets of paper. On that February morning in 1943, they did exactly that. Two students, Hans and Sophie Scholl, had been carrying them in a suitcase. And so in high spirits, or perhaps foolishness, or almost insanity, they had just taken them up to the top of Munich University.
It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month. Oft-overlooked data suggest that Africa’s baby boom is slowing, in a “demographic transition” the world has seen before. And remembering Traute Lafrenz, the last leafleter of the “White Rose” Nazi resistance.
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