Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.
Scholl in 1942
The Town Hall in Forchtenberg, the birthplace of Sophie Scholl
The grave of Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, in the Perlacher Friedhof, next to the Stadelheim prison in Munich
Bust of Sophie Scholl
The White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign that called for active opposition to the Nazi regime. Their activities started in Munich on 27 June 1942; they ended with the arrest of the core group by the Gestapo on 18 February 1943. They, as well as other members and supporters of the group who carried on distributing the pamphlets, faced show trials by the Nazi People's Court ; many of them were imprisoned and executed.
Monument to the "Weiße Rose" in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Kurt Huber, a core member of the White Rose Resistance Group
Clemens August Graf von Galen
Atrium of the Munich University main building, where Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested on 18 February 1943
