What is Sophie Scholl?
'''Sophia Magdalena Scholl''' (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a member of the [[White Rose]] [[resistance movement|Resistance group]]. Along with [[Hans Scholl|Hans scholl]], [[Alexander Schmorell]], [[Willi Graf]], [[Christoph Probst]], and [[Kurt Huber]], Sophie helped write leaflets that opposed Hitler and Nazi Germany.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/767498250|title=The White Rose : Munich, 1942-1943|last=1917-1998.|first=Scholl, Inge|date=2011|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-7272-1|oclc=767498250}}</ref> On February 18,1943, Sophie and her brother went to the [[Munich University]] to pass out leaflets.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Frey|first=Reed|date=2019|title=Conscience before Conformity: Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Resistance in Nazi Germany by Paul Shrimpton|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nsj.2019.0012|journal=Newman Studies Journal|volume=16|issue=1|pages=124–125|doi=10.1353/nsj.2019.0012|s2cid=201765330|issn=2153-6945}}</ref> They were spotted by a custodian, who alerted the Gestapo. They were put on trial on February 22. They were sentenced to death. Before her death, her roommate, Else Gebel, recalls the last thing that Sophie said to her: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone wiling to give himself up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny, day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of lives are awakened and stirred into action.”. She was [[death penalty|killed]] the same day of the trial, February 22, 1943.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Stern|first1=Fritz|last2=Hanser|first2=Richard|date=1979|title=A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students against Hitler|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20040455|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=58|issue=2|pages=426|doi=10.2307/20040455|jstor=20040455|issn=0015-7120}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} {{Wikiquote}} *[http://www.gsi.uni-muenchen.de/ ''The Geschwister-Scholl-Institut''] *[https://