- Inge Scholl
Inge Scholl (
August 11 ,1917 -September 4 ,1998 ) was the daughter of Robert Scholl, the mayor ofForchtenberg , and was the sister of Hans andSophie Scholl . All three studied at the University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of theWhite Rose student resistance movement inNazi Germany.The White Rose was a student group that printed and distributed leaflets highly critical of Nazi war crimes, particularly against the Jews on the eastern front. They said the war was unwinnable (they were mostly active after the
Wehrmacht 's disastrous reverse atThe Battle of Stalingrad and the collapse ofOperation Barbarossa ). They warned that the German people might become "forever a nation which is hated and rejected by all mankind".Sophie and Hans were caught distributing the leaflets, tried for
treason and executed byguillotine , along with another White Rose member,Christoph Probst . Inge and other Scholl family members were arrested and interrogated, but later released.Inge married
Otl Aicher , and with him founded an adult education school inUlm . She was heavily involved in thepeace movement in the latter half of the twentieth century.She wrote a number of books about the White Rose organization.
She died of
cancer on the 4th of September 1998.
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