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Sophie Scholl

af8589977 — 2025-05-07 14:41:30 UTC

Sophie was one one the key members in the White Rose group. She defied against Hitler which made her important in the impact she did. What she did affected people by not going to the slaughter like lambs if not they put up more of a challenge with a fight. Also she gave out leaflets that the Nazi did not like. Sophie had become a face of showing resistance and even in the face of danger she was brave. Which also encouraged other people to do the same thing. Sophie had went from Hitler youth to a fighter of resistance and her change of heart was because of the several events that happened in front of her. There was so many signs of the change she had and if Hitler came she was ready with a gun. She was a person of civil courge.

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 13:28:41 UTC

Sophie's impact in history was not well known but what she did showed youthful resistance. Sophie went against Hitler because she did not agree with him. The older Scholl brothers were sent off to fight on the front. Sophie’s life in Ulm changed as well. She graduated high school in the spring of 1940 and started an apprenticeship to become a kindergarten teacher. She eventually wanted to study biology and philosophy. In order to be admitted, students had to spend a period of time working for the state in the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD; National Labor Service). Sophie’s hopes that becoming a teacher would allow her to substitute for the RAD were quashed and she instead had to enter the service in the spring of 1941.

The White Rose

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 13:36:57 UTC

The White Rose was founded in 1942 by several students at the University of Munich, including Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans. The members were united against Nazi policies and began writing and distributing leaflets calling on the German people to take action to stop injustice and genocide. In 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested by the Gestapo after they distributed leaflets to students at their university. Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst, another member of the group, were executed on February 22, 1943. Since then, the White Rose, and Sophie Scholl specifically, have become a symbol of resistance during WWII.

More of the White Rose

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 13:51:31 UTC

White Rose, German anti-Nazi group formed in Munich in 1942. Unlike the conspirators of the July Plot (1944) or participants in such youth gangs as the Edelweiss Pirates, the members of the White Rose advocated nonviolent resistance as a means of opposing the Nazi regime.Those actions increased the risk faced by the students, and on February 18, 1943, a Nazi party member observed Hans and Sophie throwing leaflets from a University of Munich classroom building. They were arrested that day, and an investigation uncovered the participation of Christoph Probst, a fellow University of Munich medical student, in the White Rose. The Scholls and Probst were quickly tried, and the three were beheaded on February 22, 1943. In the months that followed, dozens were imprisoned for their (real or imagined) connections to the White Rose, and some, including Graf and Schmorell, were executed.

How they were sentence to death

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 14:20:41 UTC

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst were executed by guillotine. They were also arrested because they were handing out leaflets. Alexander Schmorell arrested and sentenced to death by the People's Court in April 1943. The same thing happened to the rest of them just that it was on different dates.

Ready to Shoot

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 14:24:35 UTC

"If Hitler came along and I had a gun, I would shoot him. If the men don't do it, a woman has to do it," Sophie Scholl told her best friend one day in 1942 when they were sitting in a cafe, according to Milstein's book, which was published in German in 2021 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Sophie Scholl's birth.

What they were known for

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 14:28:44 UTC

The White Rose is a circle of friends centered around the students Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell. Beginning in the summer of 1942, they write and distribute leaflets calling for opposition to the National Socialist dictatorship and an end to the war all over Munich. Supporters join the resistance group in other German cities, too, including professor Kurt Huber in late 1942. Seven members of the White Rose resistance are sentenced to death and executed by the NS judiciary beginning in February 1943. Around 60 fellow campaigners are tried in court and some of them sentenced to long terms in prison. When questioned by the Gestapo, Hans Scholl explained that the name of the resistance group as given on the group’s first four leaflets had been an arbitrary choice. Today, the White Rose is one of the best-known German resistance groups. In times of National Socialist terror, they were driven by humanistic motives and appealed to the responsibility of every individual for freedom and justice.

More of resistance

af8589977 — 2025-05-09 14:35:32 UTC

With the fifth leaflet appearing all over Munich, the Gestapo decides in early February 1943 to intensify the search for the authors and creates a special investigative commission. The previous search for the unknown authors of the ‘Leaflets of the White Rose’ had not been successful. The investigative commission initially cannot come up with concrete results of their search. They do not make a connection between the leaflets and the wall slogans at the university. Nevertheless, Oswald Schäfer, director of the Gestapo’s Munich office from 1942 to 1945, places the university under increased surveillance. This also means that all suspicious activity and incidents must be reported immediately.

On 18 February 1943 around 11 a.m. the Scholl siblings place copies of the sixths leaflet in front of the lecture rooms in the university’s main building, tossing a stack of remaining leaflets into the atrium. The janitor Jakob Schmid observes and seizes them. Both are immediately arrested by the Gestapo and further arrests follow. By late February most members of the Munich circle are apprehended. Heinrich Himmler orders their family members to be arrested as well, in a common Nazi practice of assuming ‘guilt by relation’ (‘Sippenhaft’). The students and Kurt Huber are expelled from the university, the soldiers discharged from the Wehrmacht so that the trial can be held by the “People’s Court” (‘Volksgerichtshof’), a special Nazi court operating outside of the constitutional frame of law.