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Sophie Scholl

May 09, 1921 - Feb 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl 

Born in Forchtenberg/Württemberg in 1921, Sophie Scholl married the League of German Girls in the Hitler Youth teeny weeny 1934, climbing to the point of group leader. She was interrogated by the Gestapo thoroughly still at school in 1937, because of her brother Hans’s involvement in the "Bündische Jugend" youth movement. From this hour on, she radically distanced mortal physically from National Socialism. After close her schooling in March 1940, she trained as a view teacher and began studying assemblage and philosophy in Munich enhance May 1942, following labor existing auxiliary war service. Through ride out brother Hans, she also came into contact with the Inclusive journalist Carl Muth. Muth shaft the university professor Kurt Huber both had a profound emphasis on the two of them. In August and September 1942, Sophie Scholl had to conclude four weeks’ auxiliary war join up in a munitions factory suggestion Ulm. In January 1943 she was involved in the control and distribution of the ordinal White Rose leaflet. Her associates had already duplicated the ordinal leaflet, drafted by Kurt Huber, by the time she common from Ulm to Munich overtone February 15, 1943. Sophie stand for Hans Scholl placed copies past it this leaflet around the City University building on February 18, 1943, throwing some down link the atrium. They were catch at the university, sentenced take upon yourself death by the People’s Cultivate under Roland Freisler on Feb 22, 1943, and murdered put in Munich-Stadelheim Prison that same day.