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Sophie Scholl’s words to the People’s Court
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QUOTE: I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that
I could do for my nation. I
therefore do not regret my
conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
[Response
to the closing question of whether she hadn't "indeed come to the
conclusion that your conduct and the actions along with your brother and other
persons in the present phase of the war should be seen as a crime against the
community, but in particular against our troops fighting arduously in the east,
that merits the severest sentence?" in the official examination
transcripts (February 1943); Bundesarchiv
Berlin, ZC 13267, Bd. 3]
AUTHOR: Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May
1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and Christian anti-Nazi
political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group
in Nazi Germany.
She was convicted of
high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University
of Munich (LMU) with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.
Since the 1970s, Scholl has been extensively commemorated for her anti-Nazi
resistance work.
She was the daughter
of the liberal politician Robert Scholl, an ardent critic of the Nazis.
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