Sophie scholl quotes
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Biography
1918 - 1943
“I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing.”
– Hans Scholl
Born in 1918, Hans Scholl was outwardly the Aryan ideal. In 1933, he joined the Hitler Youth and quickly became a squad leader but soon grew disillusioned with the Nazi party. In 1937 a former member of his group confessed to a homosexual relationship with him. Hans was arrested and kept in solitary confinement before admitting the allegations were true. In 1938 he was tried as a homosexual but was surprisingly acquitted after the judge reviewed Hans’ favorable career with Hitler Youth and called his affair a ‘youthful failing.’ However, the experience only added to Hans’ disillusionment with the party, a disdain matched by that of his younger sister Sophie. Propelled by the criminality of Han’s gayness, in 1942 the siblings became founding members of non-violent underground protest movement called The White Rose, which distributed thousands of leaflets to Germans which cited the details of the Holocaust and called for democracy and tolerance. Ha
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Hans Scholl
German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany
For the astronomer, see Hans Scholl (astronomer).
See also: Hans and Sophie Scholl
Hans Fritz Scholl (German:[hansʃɔl]ⓘ; 22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943) was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Roseresistance movement in Nazi Germany.[1] The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found guilty of high treason for distributing anti-Nazi material and was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 during World War II.[2][3]
Early life
Scholl was born in Ingersheim (now a part of Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg) on 22 September 1918 to Robert and Magdalena Scholl. His father later became the mayor of Forchtenberg am Kocher. He was the second eldest of six children. His siblings were: Inge Aicher-Scholl (1917–1998); [4][5]Elisabeth Scholl Hartnagel (1920–2020), who married Sophie's long-term boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel; Sophie Scholl (1921–1943); Werner Scholl (1922–1944), who served as a Hans & Sophie Scholl To mark the theme of 2013’s UK LGBT History Month – Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths – the Polari Magazine LGBT Heroes feature opened with the mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science, Alan Turing. As the month draws to a close, and preparations get underway to celebrate the 2014 theme, Music, the series returns to the era of the Second World War, and to a brother and sister who, like Turing, worked to bring about an end to the Nazi regime. LGBT History Month is about reclaiming
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LGBT History Month Heroes – Day 27
To celebrate LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari is publishing a daily series of LGBT Heroes, selected by the magazine’s team of writers and special contributors.
Co-Founders of Nazi Resistance Movement, The White Rose
by Christopher Bryant
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