Scholl, Inge (c. 1917–1998)

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Scholl, Inge (c. 1917–1998)

Germany pacifist. Name variations: Inge Aicher-Scholl. Born c. 1917, in Forchtenberg, Germany; died Sept 4, 1998, in Frankfurt, Germany; dau. of Robert Scholl (mayor of Forchtenberg) and Magdalene (Müller) Scholl (deaconess in the local church); sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl.

Inspired a generation of pacifists by writing of her brother and sister and the White Rose movement (1952); her book, Students Against Tyranny: The Resistance of the White Rose, Munich, 1942–1943, became a classic about the Third Reich.

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