Sophie Scholl did NOT die in vein, in having opposed the Third Reich.
Her story inspired me to take on my Fascist country.
I visited the Law Faculty at Munich University where she and two other comrades - including her older brother - were leafleting anti-Nazi literature.
Here is a picture of the Memorial in honour of their acts of resistance just a few yards outside the Law Building which I took around 2005.
Having been sensitized to Fascism by one of my closest friends and mentors at Wisconsin, who was an American interrogator of junior SS officers in post-War Germany I picked up the signs of Fascism a year before the 2012 bouts of violence started.
I screamed foul and everyone shrugged off. Well, Amnesty International's lawyers published a report where again tiptoed around the word "FASCISM": they called it "teaching Myanmar people to hate".
Every time I feel alone in the thought of my own Bama and Buddhist people who have largely succumbed to this dangerous strain of Islamophobia - the 21st century's equivalent of anti-Semitism - I think of this young German woman who was executed at 21 by one of the most ruthless and powerful killing machines in history.
May she fight on, wherever she may be.
