Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student. She was active in the White Rose, a non-violent organization resisting against Hitler and the Nazi party. In 1943, her and her brother, Hans Scholl, was caught distributing anti-war leaflets and was executed for high treason. Sophie Scholl has become an important symbol of anti-Nazi resistance in Germany. Sophie was born on May 9th, 1921, in Forchtenberg, Germany. She was the fourth out of six children. Her father, Robert Scholl, was the Mayor of…

Introduction: Born in May of 1921, Sophie Scholl was a German Lutheran student and teacher, as well as one of the most well-known anti-Nazi political activists. Sophie and her brother Hans Scholl were both members of the White Rose, one of the most respected freedom groups of all time. Narration: In the spring of 1940, Sophie graduated from secondary school — but just barely. She often did not go to her classes because it was, as she said, “all Nazi indoctrination.” After finally graduating and…

conflict, does responding a different way change the outcome, and does the way you respond change the way people think of you? To start things off, how do people respond to conflict? There are many ways people can respond to conflict. A girl named Sophie Scholl was a schoolgirl during the rise of the Nazi regime. She did not support the ways of the Nazis and started talking out about it. It made her teachers extremely angry and they punished her. Another…

to positively affect Germany by creating control and truth. The main leaders of the White Rose were Hans and Sophie Scholl who were first members of the Nazi group. Although in 1942 they discovered that Hitler’s plans were not going to provide for Germany but demolish it. Therefore they did everything they could to stop Hitler from turning Germany into pile of dust. Hans and Sophie Scholl were determined to show the…

armed and unarmed. To begin, Sophie Scholl, a young girl was a part of the unarmed resistance. She used peaceful tactics to resist. When talking about what Sophie and her group did, the author says, “The group decided to adopt the strategy of passive resistance that was being used by students fighting against the racial discrimination in the United States. This included publishing leaflets calling for the restoration of democracy and social justice” (“Sophie Scholl”). This shows the resisting…

Hans and Sophie Scholl, endured heroic fatalism, teaching others that freedom is worth the fight. The White Rose was a group aiming to convince people under Nazi power that Nazi’s morals were wrong and should not be followed. Although Hans Scholl is the original founder of The White Rose in 1942, his sister Sophie quickly joined. The resistance movement’s mission was to convince others that the Nazis were…

bystanders. The White Rose movement took a stand against Nazism and begs the question “what if”? “We will not be silent… we are your bad conscience. The white rose will not leave you in peace!”. The white rose movement was started by Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans Scholl. Its was made up of students who attended Munich university; Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst, all in their early twenties. Also members…

fully give into Hitler's false radical statements regarding the “race impurity”. Yet, the ones that resisted, are indeed overlooked, and seemed not to be recognized. The ones that rose up and spoke out against the false statements. People like Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society who peacefully spoke out against the Nazi Regime in a peaceful manner. Some acted in violent matters, for it was indeed violent times, like the men who planned the July plot, the plot to assassinate Hitler by bomb.…

mistreatment of Jews from Nazi soldiers, Hans Scholl made the decision to resist. This medical student of the University of Munich, along with his sister and fellow college students who recognized the evil of Hitler’s regime, created the White Rose society (U.S. Holocaust Museum). Beginning in the year of 1942, members of the group began producing and distributing leaflets filled with Hans’ words of defiance against what he called the “irresponsible clique” (Hans Scholl, Leaflet 1) that had…

“The Boy Who Dared” by Susan Bartoletti about Helmuth Hübene, the youngest person to be sentenced to death by the Nazi Regime, I immediately began to research other people and groups who stood up against Hitler. Soon after that, I stumbled across Sophie Scholl, a young woman in a non-violent resistance group, and began to investigate her and the group called “The White Rose” (german translation: die Weiße Rose) who between the points of summer 1942 to February 1943 wrote and published 6 leaflets…