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Jan 14, 2015 · Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany on 9 May 1921. She was the fourth out of six children. Her father Robert was the Burgermeister (Mayor) of Forchtenberg am Kocher, in Baden-Württemberg. She was brought up as a Lutheran Christian, and her childhood was relatively happy and carefree. However, in 1933, Hitler came to power and began ...
Apr 5, 2022 · L-R: Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst are photographed in 1943. Public Domain/Jim Forest/Flckr. On Feb. 18, 1943, during the height of World War II, two German college students at the University of Munich entered one of the main campus buildings, walked to the top of a staircase and tossed a stack of leaflets over the railing and down into the crowded ...
Mar 9, 2015 · Sophie Scholl was born on May 9 th 1921 in Forchtenberg in Bäden-Württemberg. Her father, Robert, was the town mayor. Her father, Robert, was the town mayor. The family lived in a degree of comfort in a large apartment in the town hall.
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Mar 5, 2018 · Circa 1940. Sophie Scholl was just 21 years old when she was executed along with her brother, 24-year-old Hans Scholl, on Feb. 22, 1943. The Scholl siblings had been arrested three days earlier and undergone nearly constant interrogation by the Gestapo before their trial. Nazi judge Roland Freisle r, infamous for handing out death sentences in ...
Read Dr Alex Lloyd’s essay on Sophie Scholl from the 2020 White Rose Project Digital Symposium.. At times, Sophie Scholl’s involvement and significance within the White Rose resistance has been marginalized (along with that of other women); yet at others she has been transformed into an icon, co-opted and invested with meaning in ways that silence her own unique voice.
Sophie Scholl. Sophie Scholl, the daughter of Robert Scholl and Magdalena Scholl, was born in Forchtenberg on 9th May, 1921. Her father was elected mayor of Forchtenberg. (1) Over the next few years he managed to get the railway extended to the town.
Sophie and Hans Scholl placed copies of this leaflet around the Munich University building on February 18, 1943, throwing some down into the atrium. They were arrested at the university, sentenced to death by the People’s Court under Roland Freisler on February 22, 1943, and murdered in Munich-Stadelheim Prison that same day.
