Sophie Schholl Research Paper

Sophie Scholl, was born on May 9, 1921. She was the daughter of Robert Scholl. She lived in Ludwigsburg, Germany with her mother, father, and older brother, Hans. When Sophie was 12 the Nazi Party rose to power in her homeland. At just 12 years old she was forced to follow the regime. Silently, Hans and Sophie’s father opposed the regime. He would do little things such as, watching BBC, a previously banned channel by the Nazi’s. He feared they would abuse their power. This is when I believe the seed of hating the Nazi Party was planted in the brother and sister’s heads.

During the same year, 14 year old Hans joined the Hitler Youth organization, in which his sister followed in his footsteps and joined the female equivalent. According to Sophie

She found the prospect highly unappealing, so she enrolled at the Fröbel Institute in Ulm to become a kindergarten teacher, thinking this would get her out of conscription service. In the end, it only pushed back her work order. She hated her time working there, she felt like a prisoner.

She went to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alongside her brother where he was studying medicine. Only a month into her arrival, she found a leaflet under one of the desks in the lecture hall. She finally felt like someone understood her and it encouraged her. She brought the leaflet to her brother to show her excitement. He must have responded oddly, because then she asked him if he was linked to the leaflet. After denying it, he eventually came clean and told her that him and his friend, Alex Schmorell who wrote the leaflet.

They began to work together to write the leaflets. They wrote leaflets that

Months later, she finally added back to her journal and quoted a verse in the bible about death. She wrote in her diary as if she knew she was going to die. Because people were finding the leaflets, they would tell the Gestapo. This raised security in the college. On February 18, 1943, the Scholl's brought a suitcase full of leaflets to the university. They hurriedly dropped stacks of copies in the empty corridors for students to find when they flooded out of lecture rooms. Leaving before the class break, the Scholl's noticed that some copies remained in the suitcase and decided it would be a pity not to distribute them. They returned to the atrium and climbed the staircase to the top floor, and Sophie flung the last remaining leaflets into the air. A custodian saw them do this and reported them to the