Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪ̯sə ˈʁoːzə] ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an ...
Stolze repeated the role in Michael Verhoeven's Die Weiße Rose (The White Rose, 1982). In an interview, Stolze said that playing the role was "an honour". In February 2005, a film about Scholl's last days, Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl – The Final Days), featuring Julia Jentsch in the title role, was released.
Hans Scholl. / 48.097344; 11.59949. Hans Fritz Scholl ( German: [hans ʃɔl] ⓘ; 22 September 1918 – 22 February 1943) was, along with Alexander Schmorell, one of the two founding members of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. [1] The principal author of the resistance movement's literature, he was found guilty of high ...
Stadelheim Prison. Coordinates: 48°05′59″N 11°35′31″E. Stadelheim Prison ( German: Justizvollzugsanstalt München ), in Munich 's Giesing district, is one of the largest prisons in Germany . Stadelheim Prison. Founded in 1894, it was the site of many executions, particularly by guillotine during the Nazi period.
Christoph Probst. Christoph Ananda Probst (6 November 1919 – 22 February 1943) was a German student of medicine and member of the White Rose ( Weiße Rose) resistance group. [1]
Roland Freisler. Karl Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945) was a German jurist, judge and politician who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1934 to 1942 and as President of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. As a prominent ideologist of Nazism, he influenced as a jurist the Nazification of ...
Alexander Schmorell [a] (16 September [ O.S. 3 September] 1917 – 13 July 1943) was a Russian - German student at Munich University who, with five others, formed a resistance group (part of the Widerstand) known as White Rose ( German: Weiße Rose) which was active against the Nazi German regime from June 1942 to February 1943. [1]
Richard III of England. Richard de la Pole (died 24 February 1525) was a pretender to the English crown. Commonly nicknamed "White Rose", he was the last Yorkist claimant to actively and openly seek the crown of England. He lived in exile after many of his relatives were executed, becoming allied with Louis XII of France in the War of the ...