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  Sophie Scholl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sophie Scholl, the daughter of Robert Scholl, the mayor of Forchtenberg, was born on 9th May, 1921.
Sophie's brother, Hans Scholl, was also growing disillusioned with Nazi Germany and in 1937 he was arrested and briefly jailed after being accused of subversive activities.
Hans Scholl was also at the University of Munich and in 1942 he had formed the White Rose group.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERschollS.htm   (1349 words)

  
 White Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst, executed for participation in a resistance movement against the Nazi regime through White Rose.
Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie led the rest of the group, including Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf.
The Scholls and Probst were the first to stand trial, on February 22, 1943.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans_and_Sophie_Scholl   (830 words)

  
 Anton Gill, excerpt about The White Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans and Sophie Scholl were the second and fourth of the five children of Robert Scholl, the liberal and independent mayor of the little town of Forchtenberg on the River Kocher to the east of Heilbronn.
Hans and Sophie were born in 1918 and 1921, and in those days Forchtenberg's only contact with the outside world was a yellow post-coach that connected it with the nearest railway station.
Sophie was not brought into it initially, but she had a shrewd idea of what her brother was up to from early on.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/gill-white-rose.html   (4607 words)

  
 The White Rose: Dissent and Justice in Wartime Germany (December 2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Thus, Hans and Sophie and several of their friends began surreptitiously publishing a series of essays entitled "The White Rose", which questioned, criticized, and opposed Hitler, the Nazi regime, the German war effort, and the concentration camps.
When the Scholls’ mother tried to enter the courtroom, she told the guard, "I’m the mother of two of the accused." The guard responded, "You should have brought them up better." When their father tried to force his way into the courtroom, he was seized and forcibly escorted outside.
Sophie, whose leg had been broken during pretrial interrogation, shocked Freisler and everyone else in the courtroom when she declared, "What we wrote and said is also believed by many others.
www.fff.org /comment/ed1201a.asp   (733 words)

  
 Sophie Scholl, Germany (1921-1943) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberal International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany in 1921.
Initially a member of the Hitler Youth she became increasingly disenchanted with Nazism and eventually both she and her brother, Hans, came to the conclusion that it was the duty of a citizen to stand up to the Nazi regime.
Sophie Scholl was beheaded along with her brother and friend Christoph Probst in Munich in February 1943.
www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=990   (340 words)

  
 The White Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans Scholl, when questioned by the Gestapo, claimed "The White Rose" was chosen arbitrarily after reading a Spanish novel of the same title, but Hans was leading his interrogators astray whenever possible.
And there was Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl's younger sister who joined Hans and his friends at the University to study biology and philosophy.
Kurt Huber contributed to the fifth leaflet and solely drafted the sixth (and final) leaflet, while Hans was apprehended with a rough-draft of a seventh leaflet written by Christoph Probst.
www.govsux.com /the_white_rose.htm   (956 words)

  
 The White Rose Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sophie and Hans Scholl were born in 1921 and 1918, in a little town called Forchtenberg.
Sophie and Hans were questioned for four days in Munich, and their trial was set for February twenty second.
In the vogue words of the time, the Scholls and their friends represented the 'other' Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, in contrast to the Germany that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world with it.
www.crystalinks.com /whiterose.html   (1714 words)

  
 PmWiki | VeronicaGodinez / FinalDraft2
Hans and Sophie were two of the student who made The White Rose, they spoke for all Germans who were too afraid to and informed the public of the “wrong” that was going on in their country.
Hans in 1937 took part in an underground youth group that called themselves ““d.j.I.II,” The German Youth of November 1,1929, the day their founder had arrived back in Germany from wanderings abroad, and decided that another anti-Nazi youth group was needed”(Dumbach) before the Hitler party could take over.
Hans was not alone, Sophie soon experienced difficulty during High School with all the lectures usually holding a topic about “National Socialist Ideology”, she was against it all and never joined discussions but however paid enough attention to answer question and later graduate, after all nothing could jeopardize her chance to go to a university.
falcon.tamucc.edu /~wiki/student/student.php/VeronicaGodinez/FinalDraft2   (1329 words)

  
 Who is White Rose?
Sophie was in was in her early twenties, an eloquent and pensive girl who dreamt of teaching kindergartin someday.
Hans, her brother, was slightly older at twenty-five and since a child, Sophie idolized him.
Sophie’s last words were captured by her mother, who brought her daughter some candy in her final visit just before her execution.
impiousdigest.com /lbj/who_is_white_rose.htm   (1357 words)

  
 Hennepin County Library - TeenLinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sophie was well aware of the danger, as were the others, who would sometimes take suitcases full of leaflets to other cities to be distributed.
Sophie and Hans were caught while distributing leaflets at the University of Munich.
The janitor grabbed them both and yelled, "You're under arrest!" Sophie and Hans were interrogated briefly and were on the verge of being let go, when the leaflets, collected by the janitors, were placed in the small suitcase that Sophie held.
www.hclib.org /teens/EssayContest/Natalie.html   (1159 words)

  
 The White Rose
By the summer of 1942, Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell were at the center of a close-knit group of friends who shared the same ideals and interests in medicine, music, art, theology and philosophy.
Hans and Alex were soon joined by Christoph Probst (a level-headed, married soldier and father of three who was loved by everyone who knew him) and Willi Graf (another medical student and a devout Catholic who never joined the Hitler Youth and refused to acknowledge those who did).
And there was Sophie, Hans Scholl's younger sister who joined Hans and his friends at the University to study biology and philosophy.
www.jlrweb.com /whiterose   (1002 words)

  
 Referat Geschwister Scholl - Englisch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
After this time, Hans was interested in the Youth organisation "Deutsche Jugendschaft vom 11." But unfortunately (but for sure, it was to be expected), the Nazis were against this kind of organisation and so it wasn't allowed for people to join or found other organisations.
The family Scholl and their friends took part in the passive resistance against the Nazis by (for example) reading books by authors like Thomas Mann, Werner Berggruen or Paul Claudel, which were prohibited to read.
Hans Scholl, Willy Graf, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell and later came Sophie Scholl to the group.
www.englisch-hilfen.de /words/scholl.htm   (387 words)

  
 Resistance part eight
The group acted in the university of Munich and its main leaders was three anti-nazi and idealist students: Hans Scholl, Christof Probst and Alex Schmorell- medicine students, and Sophie Scholl, Hans' sister that studied philosophy and biology.
The enthusiasm of Hans and Sophie had changed to a great disappointment, especially when they saw their jewish friends humiliated and thrown out of society.
All the members of Hans' group were anti-nazi, but they were deep in their beloved world of humanistic and medicine, and politics didn't interest them.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/1148/july8.html   (2535 words)

  
 The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, along with their best friend, Christoph Probst, were scheduled to be executed by Nazi officials that afternoon.
Hans and Sophie Scholl were German teenagers in the 1930s.
Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends knew what would happen to them if they were caught.
www.fff.org /freedom/0196a.asp   (1737 words)

  
 Boulder Weekly | Buzz | CenterStage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans, Sophie, and Cristl were the first of the White Rose to be arrested and each tried to claim sole responsibility for the acts of resistance in an attempt to protect their friends.
In fact, some of the scenes, such as the Gestapo's instructions to Sophie to picture her parents before she decides to give her life to the cause, or the bird calls that pull on Sophie's heart strings, are so cliche they're painful.
As Sophie Scholl, Jessie Fisher lacks a little fire, but she still creates a convincing heroine, adjusting her demeanor for the Gestapo and her brother with just the right amount of subtlety to highlight the gender issues that pervade the script.
www.boulderweekly.com /archive/022802/centerstage.html   (799 words)

  
 The White Rose
Brilliant young people, they each headed eventually for the University of Munich, Hans first to Medical School [interupted by a stint in the German armed forces] and Sophie, later, still undecided in her major, but having some experience in education, with a love for philosophy, music and the humanities.
The Scholls and others were deeply influence by a faculty member with similar outrage to Hitler's policies.
The Scholls, Chris Probst, and Professor Haber became the core of a non-violent resistance group on campus, comprised entirely of Germans.
www.shoaheducation.com /whiterose.html   (1313 words)

  
 The White Rose Students   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans was later joined in his efforts by his sister Sophie.
Hans, as a young member of the Hitler Youth, became disenchanted by the organization's hate mongering views.
Hans and Sophie were apprehended on February 18, 1943 while dumping a suitcase of leaflets onto a university courtyard.
hometown.aol.com /baronvanc/whitrose.htm   (316 words)

  
 February 18, 1943
Hans and Sophie Scholl arise between 8:30 and 9 am and eat breakfast.
Hans does not dispose of the incriminating evidence in his pocket: Christoph Probst's leaflet draft, and cigarette coupons directly traceable to the Geyer family.
She goes to the Scholls' apartment and is immediately taken into custody, and to Gestapo headquarters.
www.deheap.com /february_18,_1943.htm   (1085 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The "White Rose" movement was founded in June 1942 by Hans Scholl, a 24-year-old medical student at the University of Munich, his 22-year-old sister Sophie, and 24-year-old Christoph Probst.
Hans, Sophie, and Christoph were outraged that educated Germans went along with Nazi policies.
In February 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl were caught distributing leaflets and arrested.
www.ushmm.org /outreach/rgerman.htm   (256 words)

  
 Remembering the "White Rose" | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle |
On a clear February day in 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl entered the deserted atrium of the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich bearing a suitcase full of leaflets containing a passionate appeal to Germans to engage in "passive resistance" against Hitler and the Third Reich.
22-year-old biology and philosophy student Sophie Scholl hurriedly climbed the grand marble staircase to the upper level of the hall and in a rush of emotion, flung the last remaining leaflets high in the air.
Two months after the execution of Sophie and Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst, three further members of the "White Rose", among them 49-year-old philosophy professor, Kurt Huber, the editorial brain behind the leaflets, were also sentenced to death and summarily executed.
www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1441_A_783992_1_A,00.html   (1003 words)

  
 The White Rose and German Resistance to the Nazis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans and Sophie Scholl, Kurt Huber, Willi Graf, Alexander Schmorell and Christoph Probst: these are the names of the martyrs.
The older sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, Inge Aicher-Scholl founded the White Rose Foundation, remaining active throughout her long life in anti-fascist causes, and in the European peace movement.
Author Ruth Sachs asserts that Inge Aicher Scholl, the eldest of the siblings, distorted the accounts of the group by overemphasizing the importance of her brother and sister.
my.execpc.com /~awallace/rose.htm   (549 words)

  
 The White Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Their names were Hans Scholl, 24; his sister Sophie, 21; and Christoph Probst, 23.
Hans became a flag bearer, and Sophie a group leader.
While spreading leaflets on the staircase of a building at the university, Hans and Sophie were accosted by a janitor and turned over to the Gestapo.
www.bruderhof.com /articles/white-rose.htm?format=print   (1198 words)

  
 Scholl Institute of Bioethics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Scholl Institute is a nonprofit, Judeo-Christian organization that addresses bioethical issues including euthanasia, the withholding or withdrawing of food and water from non-dying patients, brain death, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, and rights of disabled or mentally ill persons.
The name was chosen in memory of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were a brother and sister.
Hans and Sophie were executed as traitors by the Nazis on February 22, 1943.
home.earthlink.net /~lgwalsh/scholl.html   (275 words)

  
 European youth magazine Weiße Rose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie were students in Munich.
Within a couple of hours Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst were arrested by the Gestapo.
Although Sophie and Hans did not betray any of their friends, all other members of the resistance group were traced by the Gestapo and arrested and executed shortly after.
www.pop-up.org /1antirac/wrose/weisseroseen.htm   (461 words)

  
 Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage (2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Plot Summary: Munich, 1943: Sophie and Hans Scholl are members of the "Weiße Rose" (White Rose), a resistance group against the Nazi regime...
Sophie Scholl is way more demanding and exacting.
In my opinion Sophie Scholl is due to its precision more like a (replayed) documentary movie than a Drama, which makes it even more "shocking".
www.imdb.com /title/tt0426578   (385 words)

  
 Anne Frank - history
As an eye-witness and as a relative or friend of the founders of the movement, she may be trusted to give a detailed version of events.
As war drew nearer, Hans Scholl completed his studies at school, and went to university in Munich as a medical student.
Sophie Scholl was convinced that her brother was behind the resistance movement, but so far he had not told her about it.
www.annefrank.eril.net /teaching/history2.htm   (2322 words)

  
 Remembering The White Rose : LA IMC
On a clear February day in 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl entered the deserted atrium of the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich bearing a suitcase full of leaflets containing a passionate appeal to Germans to engage in "passive resistance" against Hitler and the Third Reich.
22-year-old biology and philosophy student Sophie Scholl hurriedly climbed the grand marble staircase to the upper level of the hall and in a rush of emotion, flung the last remaining leaflets high in the air.
Schmidt spotted Sophie and Hans with the leaflets -- within minutes the doors were locked, the police called and Hans and Sophie were hustled into Gestapo custody.
la.indymedia.org /news/2003/02/31223.php   (1166 words)

  
 Underground Resistance
For example, Hans and Sophie Scholl, siblings, were active young patriots in the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls, respectively.
Sophie noticed that no Jews were admitted as members, and Hans grew weary of “senseless drilling, the hate-filled aggressive speeches,.
Hans and Sophie illustrate young resisters who started out enthusiastic about Hitler’s regime but came to reject and fight against it.
www.meredith.edu /stones/undergro.htm   (3401 words)

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