Hans and Sophie Scholl
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Hans and Sophie Scholl, often referred to in German as die Geschwister Scholl, were a brother and sister who were members of the White Rose, a student group in Munich that was active in the non-violen
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The memorial for the White Rose in front of the main building of LMU Munich depicts the group's flyers.
Sophie Scholl
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Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Hans and Sophie Scholl
…of German resistance against the totalitarian Nazi regime. There were six Scholl siblings: Inge (1917–1998), Hans (1918–1943), Elisabeth (1920–2020), Sophie (1921–1943), Werner (1922–1944) and Thilde (1925–1926), whose family lived in Württemberg, in the towns of Forchtenberg (until 1930), Ludwigsburg…
Gestapo photograph of Scholl, 18 February 1943
The Town Hall in Forchtenberg, the birthplace of Sophie Scholl
Bust of Sophie Scholl