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World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
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White Rose
Resistance group in Nazi Germany
The White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sophie Scholl
German anti-Nazi resistance fighter, member of the White Rose (1921–1943)
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hans Scholl
German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany
Hans Fritz Scholl was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found guilty of high treason for distributing anti-Nazi material and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Christoph Probst
German medical student and resistance leader executed by the Nazis in 1943
Christoph Ananda Probst (6 November 1919 – 22 February 1943) was a German medical student and member of the anti-Nazi resistance group White Rose. Although less publicly known than Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, Probst played a key intellectual role in the group’s efforts to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nazi Germany
German state from 1933 to 1945
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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