German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)
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A German student who stood in a university atrium in 1943 and scattered anti-Nazi leaflets into the void, knowing the Gestapo was already closing in. Four days later she was dead.
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was born 9 May 1921 and raised in a politically engaged family. She joined the Bund Deutscher Mädel in her youth but grew critical of the regime through readings in philosophy and theology, particularly the work of Theodor Haecker. Alongside her brother Hans and other students, she joined the White Rose, a passive resistance circle that distributed leaflets citing ethical arguments against Nazi policy. On 18 February 1943, she and Hans were caught distributing pamphlets at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The Gestapo arrested them, interrogated them, and brought…
Sourced, dated quotes from Sophie Scholl
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation.
The only remedy for a barren heart is prayer, however poor and inadequate.
I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray. Sometimes when I utter God's name, in fact, I feel like sinking into a void.
Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.
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