Inge Scholl
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Inge Scholl (August 11, 1917-September 4, 1998) was the daughter of Robert Scholl, the mayor of Forchtenberg, and so was the sister of Hans and Sophie Scholl. All three studied at the University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Nazi 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 at The Battle of Stalingrad and the collapse of Operation 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 by guillotine, 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 in Ulm. She was heavily involved in the peace movement in the latter half of the twentieth century.
She wrote a number of books about the White Rose organization.
