However, on February 22, 1943, the exceptionally courageous young woman was executed by the National Socialists at the age of just 21. The reason: your resistance to the dictatorship with the group “The White Rose”.
This coin motif is dedicated to the young woman. It shows Sophie Scholl in profile, her head bowed, her eyes directed to the ground. “Although I don't know much about politics and don't have the ambition to do it, I do have a bit of a feeling about what is right and wrong. Because this has nothing to do with politics and nationality,” she wrote to her friend Fritz Hartnagel on May 29, 1940. This famous quote can be found in a shortened form on the edge of the coin: A FEELING OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG •
Sophie Scholl's older brother Hans began producing leaflets critical of the regime in the summer of 1942. Together with his friend Alexander Schmorell, he secretly wrote and distributed them in Munich and the surrounding area. The two young men formed the core of the group “The White Rose”. Little by little Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, their mentor Professor Kurt Huber and Sophie Scholl joined the resistance movement. In its leaflets, the “White Rose” called for clear decisions against Hitler’s dictatorship, called for “passive resistance” from the population and ultimately even the overthrow of the government. Sophie Scholl herself was involved in the design and distribution of the fifth and sixth leaflets. When she dropped a batch of it into the atrium of the university in Munich in February 1943, she was caught and arrested.
Sophie Scholl had to pay with her life for her resistance work against the Nazi dictatorship. She, her brother Hans and Christoph Probst were executed on the day of their sentencing.
