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Also known as Sophia Magdalena Scholl, Sofie Scholl

German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose (1921-1943)

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Sophie Scholl was a person from the US who lived from 1921 to 1943. She is associated with the music genres hardcore and polish hardcore, as well as Falubaz Hardcore. Her musical activity includes a playcount of 1957 and 133 listeners.

As an author, she is credited with three works. These include *Hans Scholl*, *Sophie Scholl*, *Briefe und Aufzeichnungen*, and *Damit wir uns nicht verlieren*. A separate record lists a total of five works for her. Her name appears in 297 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1921
Died
1943
Works
3

Top works

  • Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen
  • Briefe und Aufzeichnungen
  • Damit wir uns nicht verlieren

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
133
Total plays
1,957

Tags

hardcorepolish hardcoreFalubaz Hardcore

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Quotes

  • Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
  • 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.
  • I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray. Sometimes when I utter God's name, in fact, I feel like sinking into a void. It isn't a frightening or dizzying sensation, it's nothing at all — and that's far more terrible. But prayer is the only remedy for it, and however many devils scurry around inside me, I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.
  • Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
  • I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause?
  • I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. Unprepared, given over to childish trivialities, it could be taken by surprise when the great hour comes and find that, for the sake of piffling pleasures, the one great joy has been missed. I am aware of this, but my heart is not. It seems unteachable; it continues its dreaming … always wavering between joy and depression.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Sophie
Gender
female
Citizenship
German Reich
Place of birth
Forchtenberg
Place of death
Munich
Languages spoken
German
Native language
German
Religion
Lutheranism
Image
Gestapo photo of Sophie Scholl taken after her capture on February 18, 1943-2.jpg
Convicted of
high treason
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Commons category
Sophie Scholl
date of birth
1921-05-09
date of death
1943-02-22
ethnic group
Germans
manner of death
capital punishment
birth name
Sophia Magdalena Scholl
cause of death
decapitation
name in native language
Sophie Scholl
partner in business or sport
Hans Scholl
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Encyclopedic overview

Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

Raised in a politically engaged family, Scholl initially joined the Bund Deutscher Mädel, the female branch of the Hitler Youth, but later became critical of the Nazi regime. Influenced by philosophy, theology, and the writings of Theodor Haecker, she became involved in passive resistance efforts alongside her brother, Hans, and fellow students. The White Rose distributed leaflets calling for opposition to the Nazi state, citing ethical and philosophical arguments against its policies. In February 1943, after being caught distributing leaflets at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, she and her brother Hans were arrested by the Gestapo, interrogated, and convicted of high treason in a show trial presided over by Roland Freisler. They were sentenced to death and executed by guillotine.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sophie Scholl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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