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The White Rose Resistance Group: A National History Day Documentary

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Sophie's Heroism and Sense of Purpose Reflected in Her Final Words:

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Sophie's Heroism and Sense of Purpose Reflected in Her Final Words:

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”How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause,” Sophie said. ”Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go,” she continued, ”but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

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by Sara Bareilles

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Sophie faced her execution by guillotine without fear or remorse.

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Sophie Scholl (by the fence) and other members of the White Rose

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She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich (LMU) with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi resistance work.

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                          Who was Sophie Scholl?

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                          Who was Sophie Scholl?

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Sophie Scholl were German teenagers in the 1930s. Like other young Germans, they enthusiastically joined the Hitler Youth. They believed that Adolf Hitler  was leading Germany and the German people back to greatness.

Their parents were not so enthusiastic. Their father, Robert Scholl, told his children that Hitler and the Nazis were leading Germany down a road of destruction. Later, in 1942,he would serve time in a Nazi prison for telling his secretary: “The war! It is already lost. This Hitler is God's scourge on mankind, and if the war doesn't end soon the Russians will be sitting in Berlin.” Gradually, Sophie and her brother, Hans began realizing that their father was right. They concluded that, in the name of freedom and the greater good of the German nation, Hitler and the Nazis were enslaving and destroying the German people.

Sophie and her brother Hans became part of a nonviolent Nazi resistance movement.

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White Rose

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Holocaust:
A Lesson in Dissent

Hans Scholl (left), Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, leaders of the White Rose resistance organization. Munich 1942 (USHMM Photo)