A young German student executed (beheaded by guillotine) by the S.S. for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets, alongside her brother and one of their college professors.
Their resistance group was known as the White Rose, and another six members were rounded up and executed over the next few months.
Her last few words were:
How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to offer themselves up individually for a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go.
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