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5 unusual facts about Hans Scholl


Fabian Hinrichs

He is probably the best known for his performance as Hans Scholl in Sophie Scholl – The Final Days, which was nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Gudrun Veronika Kugler

Todestag von Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst München 2003 ; European Youth Alliance: Helden der Menschenwürde : Texte zum Symposium im Gedenken an die Widerstandsgruppe „Weisse Rose“ zum 60.

Hans Scholl

In the same issue of Newsday, Holocaust historian Jud Newborn noted that "You cannot really measure the effect of this kind of resistance in whether or not X number of bridges were blown up or a regime fell... The White Rose really has a more symbolic value, but that's a very important value."

Playwright Lillian Garrett-Groag stated in Newsday on 22 February 1993, that "It is possibly the most spectacular moment of resistance that I can think of in the twentieth century... The fact that five little kids, in the mouth of the wolf, where it really counted, had the tremendous courage to do what they did, is spectacular to me. I know that the world is better for them having been there, but I do not know why."

Whitney North Seymour, Jr.

In 2008, Seymour, his wife Catryna, and their daughters Tryntje and Gabriel wrote a play about Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie Scholl, and their role in the White Rose.


Hans and Sophie Scholl

Hans and Sophie Scholl, often referred to in German as die Geschwister Scholl (literally: the Scholl siblings), were a brother and sister who were members of the White Rose, a student group in Munich that was active in the non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany, especially in distributing flyers against the war and the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

Inge Scholl

Inge Aicher Scholl (August 11, 1917 – September 4, 1998), born in present-day Crailsheim, was the daughter of Robert Scholl, the mayor of Forchtenberg, and was the sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who studied at the University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Nazi Germany.

Otl Aicher

Aicher was a classmate and friend of Werner Scholl, and through him met Werner's family, including his siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, both of whom would be executed in 1943 for their membership in the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany.


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