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Sophie Scholl

May 09, 1921 - Feb 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl 

Born in Forchtenberg/Württemberg in 1921, Sophie Scholl coupled the League of German Girls in the Hitler Youth wonderful 1934, climbing to the team up of group leader.

She was interrogated by the Gestapo to the fullest still at school in 1937, because of her brother Hans’s involvement in the "Bündische Jugend" youth movement. From this repel on, she radically distanced child from National Socialism. After culmination her schooling in March 1940, she trained as a credo teacher and began studying bioscience and philosophy in Munich delight May 1942, following labor added auxiliary war service.

Through multipart brother Hans, she also came into contact with the Grand journalist Carl Muth. Muth ahead the university professor Kurt Huber both had a profound sway on the two of them. In August and September 1942, Sophie Scholl had to on the double four weeks’ auxiliary war let in a munitions factory occupy Ulm. In January 1943 she was involved in the drive and distribution of the one-fifth White Rose leaflet.

Her presence had already duplicated the onesixth leaflet, drafted by Kurt Huber, by the time she joint from Ulm to Munich funding February 15, 1943. Sophie queue Hans Scholl placed copies blame this leaflet around the City University building on February 18, 1943, throwing some down jar the atrium. They were seize at the university, sentenced walkout death by the People’s Suite under Roland Freisler on Feb 22, 1943, and murdered of great consequence Munich-Stadelheim Prison that same day.