Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the death of Sophie Scholl. An anti-Nazi political activist, she was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the LMU with her brother, Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.

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image showing Yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the death of Sophie Scholl. An anti-Nazi political activist, she was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the LMU with her brother, Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.

Scottler on February 23rd, 2018 at 10:01 UTC »

And let's just think for a moment that she did what she did by the age of 21.

househotpie on February 23rd, 2018 at 11:14 UTC »

I did a bicycle tour of Munich that stopped at a beautiful cobbled courtyard with stone leaflets embedded into the stones. Beautiful tribute.

If I recall correctly, the anti-war leaflets detailed the treatment of Jews and the death camps. She had a chance to say she was coerced to get out of the death sentence but she refused.

DownAndOut2010 on February 23rd, 2018 at 11:18 UTC »

Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply. But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past. I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame and that I hadn't known about those things. I wasn't aware of the extent. But one day I went past the memorial plaque which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse, and I saw that she was born the same year as me, and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler. And at that moment I actually sensed that it was no excuse to be young, and that it would have been possible to find things out.

- Traudl Junge (the woman the film Downfall is largely based on, who had been secretary to Hitler), speaking in 2002.