Hans et sophie scholl biography
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German Resistance Memorial Center Biographie
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Sophie Scholl
May 09, 1921 - February 22, 1943
Born in Forchtenberg/Württemberg in 1921, Sophie Scholl joined the League of German Girls in the Hitler Youth in 1934, climbing to the rank of group leader. She was interrogated by the Gestapo while still at school in 1937, because of her brother Hans’s involvement in the "Bündische Jugend" youth movement. From this time on, she radically distanced herself from National Socialism. After finishing her schooling in March 1940, she trained as a kindergarten teacher and began studying biology and philosophy in Munich in May 1942, following labor and auxiliary war service. Through her brother Hans, she also came into contact with the Catholic journalist Carl Muth. Muth and the university professor Kurt Huber both had a prof
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Within the United States, Sophie Magdalena Scholl is not the best-known resistance fighter, but her story is a powerful one. She was a key member of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)—a resistance group run by students at the University of Munich who distributed leaflets and used graffiti to decry Nazi crimes and the political system, while calling for resistance to the Nazi state and the war. On February 22, 1943, she was beheaded for treason at just 21 years old.
Sophie was born in May 1921, the fourth of six children to an upper-middle class family in the south of Germany. Robert, her father, was mayor of Forchtenberg, an idyllic town in the northeast of the modern state of Baden-Württemberg. When Sophie was 10, the family moved to Ulm, a mid-size southern town dating back to the Middle Ages, where her father worked as state auditor and tax consultant.
After the Nazis came to power in January 1933, Sophie, along with most of her siblings, was an excited and happy follower of t
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Hans and Sophie SCHOLL
Hans and Sophie Scholl
Hans Scholl was born on September 22, 1918, in Crailsheim and his sister Sophie (Sophia) was born May 9,1921, in Forchtenberg am Kocher, they were children of the local Mayor of Forchtenberg. The Scholl family lived in Ludwigsburg from the summer of 1930, to the spring of 1932. The family then lived in Ulm before settling in Munich. Hans Scholl was an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth), whilst Sophie had joined at the age of 12, the Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls).
They both attended the University of Munich, which was a hotbed of student dissatisfaction by 1942. Their mentor was the Professor of Philosophy Kurt Huber, who opposed the Nazi regime and was later executed. Hans began his medical studies at the University in 1941, then served as a medical orderly on the Russian front, returning to Munich on study leave the following summer.
His younger sister Sophie enrolled as a student at t