Maxvorstadt
Neoclassical university quarter of museums and lecture halls, built as a royal showcase of ideas.
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This guide to Maxvorstadt in Munich follows Sophie Scholl, a 21-year-old student in this university quarter, on an ordinary morning in February 1943 when she and her brother Hans left stacks of leaflets outside lecture halls for the White Rose resistance group. It traces what King Ludwig the First built this neighborhood to be, an Athens of the north ringed with museums and lecture halls, and the janitor watching from the atrium below as Sophie climbed to the top floor with the leaflets that were left over.
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