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Top 10 Interesting Facts About Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl was born on May 9, 1921, in Forchtenberg, Weimar Republic and died on February 22, 1943, in Stadelheim Prison, Munich, Nazi Germany. She was the daughter of Robert Scholl and Magdalena Scholl. She was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist and a member of the White Rose.

She was convicted of the high crime of attacking a state authority after being found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich together with her brother Hans. Scholl managed to hide her evidence while her brother tried to destroy the draft of the leaflet by tearing and swallowing it. However, Gestapo recovered enough of it to read what it said.

Scholl was initially thought to be innocent by Robert Mohr, the main Interrogator of the Gestapo, but she took full responsibility to accept the crime so as to protect the other members of White Rose. She Confesses in the People鈥檚 Court before Judge Roland Freisler and since they were found guilty of treason they were condemned to death.

1. Sophie Scholl was a Kindergarten Teacher

After Sophie graduated from secondary school in 1940, she became a kindergarten teacher at the Frobel Institute in Ulm since she loved children.

Scholl choose this job hoping that it would be recognized as an alternative service in the National Labor service as a requirement for admission to the university. However, that was not the case it was not recognized.

2. She was of Big Important to White Rose

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Scholl鈥檚 brother, Hans Scholl started the White Rose together with his friends. This all began when Hans was a student at the University of Munich. He met two Roman Catholic men of letters who redirected his life, they inspired him to turn from studying medicine and pursue religion, philosophy, and the arts.

Following Hans, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Jurgen Wittenstein eventually adopted a strategy of passive resistance toward the Nazis by writing and publishing leaflets that called for the toppling of National Socialism and called themselves the White Rose.

The leaflets were left on telephone books in the public phone booths, and mailed to students and professors. It is believed that Sophie to have first learned about the White Rose in July 1942 after being started in June 1942. When she joined, she was of big help to the group since as a woman, her chances of being randomly stopped by SS were much smaller.

3. Different Places hHaveBeen Named After Her

 One of the interesting facts about Scholl is that even after her death she is still remembered and honoured. Many institutions are named after her. The Geschwister-Scholl- Institut (Scholl Siblings Institute) for Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich is named after Scholl in her honour and her brother.

The Institute is housed in the former Radio Free Europe building and it is the home to the University鈥檚 political science and communication departments. Many local schools, several streets, and Squares in German and Austria have been named after Scholl and her brother.

4. She was Voted the Greatest Woman of the Twentieth Century

Scholl was a hero who is remembered and honoured to date. She was the only woman in the White Rose group and the best in trying to educate people on the negative impact of following and accepting the Nazi regime until her last breath.

Some years back the readers of Brigitte (the largest woman鈥檚 magazine in Germany, with a circulation of around 800,000 and an estimated readership of 3.6 million), voted Scholl as the greatest woman of the twentieth century.

5. She was Chosen among the top 10 Most Important People in Unsere Besten Competition

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Germans were invited by television broadcaster ZDF, in the year 2003, to participate in Unsere Besten, a television series shown on German public television ZDF in November. It is a nationwide competition; they were invited to choose the top ten most important Germans of all time.

German voters under the age of 40 voted for Scholl and her brother Hans, and they became among the top 10, they took fourth place. They were above other important people in German such as Goethe, Gutenberg, Bach, Bismarck, Willy Brandt, and Albert Einstein.

6. Several Films and Television Shows were Released Talking about Sophie Scholl

In the year the 1970s and 1980s, three film accounts of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance. Der Pedell was one of the Tv films released in 1971, it forced on the university鈥檚 maintenance man, Jakob Schmid who made Scholl and the other White Rose members be arrested and killed.

A film about Scholl鈥檚 last days was released in February 2005. The film was called, Sophie Scholl-Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl- The Final Days), and it featured Julia Jentsch in the title role.

 Frauen die Geschichte machten -Sophie Scholl a German Tv docudrama was broadcast in 2013. It is interesting to know that even after Scholl鈥檚 death, films a made using her life story.

7. There is Music Written about Scholl

There are several pieces of music written talking about Scholl. On an album titled the same, George Donaldson who is a Scottish folk singer wrote a song called 鈥淭he White Rose鈥�, which talks about Scholl and the White Rose movement.

The English Punk band Zatopeks released a love song for Sophie Scholl on their debut album in the year 2005.  In the year 2016, a French rock band, Mickey 3D, wrote a song called 鈥淟a Rose Blanche鈥� on their album known as Sebolavy.

Sheer Mag, an American rock band recorded a song called 鈥淪ay Goodbye to Sophie Scholl鈥� on an album titled Need to Feel Your Love in 2017 among others.

8. Books have Been Published Talking about Scholl

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Some authors have taken a mile step and published books talking about this hero woman from Germany. Some of the books that have been published include the following;

The History Press published Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler by Frank McDonough in February 2009. Carl Hanser Verlag, in February 2010, released Sophie Scholl: A Biography, by Barbara Beuys.

9. She was Talented in Drawing and Painting

Scholl was talented in drawing and painting. When her brothers and friends participated in the German Youth Movement in 1937 it left a strong impression on her.

 She came into contact with so-called degenerate artists for the first time. Degenerate art was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art.

10. A Bust of Scholl was Placed in Walhalla Temple

On February 22, 2003, a bust of Scholl was placed In the Walhalla Temple by the government of Bavaria in her honour.

This is one of the most interesting facts about Scholl to know that she was the fifth woman to receive that honour in Germany.