ABSTRACT
Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a member of the White Rose, a Nazi resistance group run by students at the University of Munich during World War II. The organization distributed leaflets and used graffiti to call out Nazi crimes and express their distaste with the political system and war. The White Rose was made up of siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, three other Munich students, and a professor of philosophy and musicology. The group published six pamphlets over the course of its existence. It grew from small-scale distribution around campus to reaching thousands of households across Germany. On February 18, while distributing flyers with her brother, Sophie pushed a stack off a railing onto one of the main halls on campus. A janitor spotted Hans and Sophie, and turned them in to the Gestapo. They, along with others in the group, were sentenced to death for treason.
