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February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old White Rose (Weisse Rose) activist at Munich University, was executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
There are many memorials in Bavaria and Germany to Sophie and her group, the White Rose, but little is known outside of Germany. They were medical students who organized nonviolent resistance to Hitler, and were arrested for printing and distributing anti-Nazi flyers.
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Sophie, her brother Hans, a former member of Hitler Youth who started White Rose, and Christof Probst, the three young people in the photo, were executed. Few White Rose members survived the war which is why the story is not well known.
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@JohnAutry This photo brings tears 
to my eyes every time.
“Chemical Eye 
on Yellow Stars and the White Rose” 
http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/062206_macdougall_rose.html
@JohnAutry I'm sorry, but nobody knows jack-fuck at 22.I also heard she was 27, so, yeah...