Traute Lafrenz, its last surviving member anti-Nazi organization her Germany“White Rose”, died at the age of 103, the White Rose Foundation announced on Thursday (09.03.2023).
“Trout Lafrenz-Page died on March 6 in South Carolina. He would have turned 104 in May,” the Foundation said in a statement about the anti-Nazi icon. organization of Germany.
The young medical student was a friend of Hans Saul, one of the founders – along with his sister Sophie – of this of a group of pacifist students who were dropping leaflets against III Raih in Munich. Traute distributed such leaflets in Hamburg. It was she who informed the families, on February 18, 1943, of the arrests of Sophie, Hans and their friend, Christoph Probst.
The three youths were sentenced to death by beheading in a summary trial and executed at the end of February 1943.
Traute was also arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to a year in prison for “collusion”. After the war he immigrated to the USA where he completed his medical studies.
Hans and Sophie Soll became symbols in Germany for their courage and the treatment they received from Nazi regime. Many school institutions today bear their name.
Source: News Beast
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