Sophie school biography projects
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One of this year’s White Rose Project translators, Lydia Ludlow, comments on the experience of translating Sophie Scholl’s letters. Lydia is an undergraduate student at the University of Oxford.
I was excited about taking part in the White Rose Project, though I didn’t really know what to expect. My knowledge of the White Rose was limited to a foggy memory of something mentioned in a long-ago GCSE history class; I certainly hadn’t read anything they’d written.
We began by learning about Sophie’s biography and I think everyone was quickly struck by what an impressive figure Sophie was, even long before her execution. Like the other White Rose members Sophie was astonishingly well-read, and her reading material (Aquinas, John Henry Newman) shows her keenness to engage with serious questions of theology and morality at a time where the distractions of her own life, and the oppressiveness of the political climate, might have made it easy to shy away.
Sophie’s thoughtfulness comes across strongly in her writing. She demonstrates a clear-sightedness about the nature of the Nazi regime, describing the political situation as ‘confused and evil’, but she also writes sensitively about how it affects her: the pain of dedicati
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Within the United States, Sophie Magdalena Scholl is not the best-known resistance fighter, but her story is a powerful one. She was a key member of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)—a resistance group run by students at the University of Munich who distributed leaflets and used graffiti to decry Nazi crimes and the political system, while calling for resistance to the Nazi state and the war. On February 22, 1943, she was beheaded for treason at just 21 years old.
Sophie was born in May 1921, the fourth of six children to an upper-middle class family in the south of Germany. Robert, her father, was mayor of Forchtenberg, an idyllic town in the northeast of the modern state of Baden-Württemberg. When Sophie was 10, the family moved to Ulm, a mid-size southern town dating back to the Middle Ages, where her father worked as state auditor and tax consultant.
After the Nazis came to power in January 1933, Sophie, along with most of her siblings, was an excited and happy follower of the National Socialist cult of youth. The teenager believed in the ideals propagated at the time. Similar to many of their contemporaries, Sophie was particularly intrigued by the focus on nature and communal experiences. She joined the BDM, the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) and quick
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