Hans Scholl
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Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literatu
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Mugshots of Scholl taken by the Gestapo 1943
Scholl memorial in Bommersheim
Jakob Schmid
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Jakob Schmid was a German janitor of LMU Munich. On 18 February 1943, he turned in the siblings Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, members of the resistance group White Rose, for distributing pamphlets ag
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…flung the last remaining leaflets from the top floor down into the atrium. This spontaneous action was observed by the university maintenance man, Jakob Schmid. Schmid reported the offense and the Scholls were arrested by the Gestapo. Along with Christoph Probst, the two siblings were tried for treason by Judge…
Jakob Schmid at his denazification trial in February 1947