Kurt Huber
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Kurt Huber was a German university professor, philosopher, and resistance fighter with the anti-Nazi group White Rose. For his involvement, he was imprisoned and guillotined.
Bundesarchiv Bild 146II 744, Kurt Huber
Huber's birthplace in Chur
Carl Orff
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Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his Schulwerk, which became influential for chi
Kurt Huber
…saw Hans Scholl. Huber's political activities came to the attention of the Gestapo, and he was arrested on 27 February 1943. By coincidence, composer Carl Orff came to visit the next day. Huber's distraught wife, Clara (née Schlickenrieder, 1908–1998), hoped Orff would use his influence to help her husband…
Orff c. 1970
Orff in 1940
Orff's grave at the Andechs Abbey church
Bust of Carl Orff in the Munich Hall of Fame (2009)