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SOPHIE SCHOLL & WHITE ROSE - A Thread 🧵
On this day #otd 100 yrs ago Sophie Scholl, #sophiesscholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany
She would be executed by Gestapo aged 21 along with her brother & friends for her brave anti-Nazi activities with White Rose resistance group
On this day #otd 100 yrs ago Sophie Scholl, #sophiesscholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany
She would be executed by Gestapo aged 21 along with her brother & friends for her brave anti-Nazi activities with White Rose resistance group
Hans (b 1918) & Sophie Scholl were 2nd & 4th of 6 children of Robert Scholl, who was a liberal Christian pacifist & opposed to Nazis
Family were middle class & moved to Ulm in 1932
Robert Scholl was disappointed when his children joined Hitler Youth & German League of Girls
Family were middle class & moved to Ulm in 1932
Robert Scholl was disappointed when his children joined Hitler Youth & German League of Girls
But disillusionment with the Nazi regime - encouraged by their father - soon set in
Hans was stripped of his rank in Hitler Youth after attacking an officer bullying a young boy
Sophie in 1937 joined underground anti-Nazi youth group Deutsche Jungenschaft vom 1.11.1929, dj.1.11
Hans was stripped of his rank in Hitler Youth after attacking an officer bullying a young boy
Sophie in 1937 joined underground anti-Nazi youth group Deutsche Jungenschaft vom 1.11.1929, dj.1.11
