When Resistance Means Death: Sofie Scholl 1921–1943

Resisting Nazi Germany

Werner Scholl with sister Sofie Scholl, by Hans Scholl 1941 (Public Domain via wikimedia) copped by author

Her bust now stands in Valhalla, the hall of Great Germans, one of the very few women selected for this honor.

Another bust lives in the White Rose Atrium at the University of Munich, where she and her brother Hans were arrested in 1943.