Sophie Scholl: Germany’s Celebrated Woman of the Twentieth Century

by John Wear

Published: 2022-05-06

Sophie Magdalena Scholl (1921-1943) is one of the most famous members of the German resistance movement during World War II. She and her brother Hans took enormous risks to undermine Adolf Hitler’s power. Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis write:[1]

“For the Scholls, opposition to Hitler was a moral imperative, a simple question of right versus wrong. No matter what the consequences. In the horrors that Hitler would create in the coming years, the family would pay a terrible price for its desire for a better Germany.”

Hans and Sophie Scholl were dead at ages 24 and 21, respectively, so left behind no careers or life’s work. However, a series of actions over the course of only six or seven months have made them world famous and national heroes in modern Germany.[2]

This article discuses the short life of Sophie Scholl, and why she was so determined to end Hitler’s reign.

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