P.B.S. Pinchback

Biography

As the remainder of young German, it is embrigadée in the youth movements German. It feels there very early the restrictions of freedoms, in particular of thought and religion. After the vat in 1940, it becomes guard of children. In the “services of work” and “auxiliary service” that it carries out in 1940-41, it manages to keep, in spite of prohibition to have books, the Pensées of Saint Augustin ; it keeps in memory this sentence: “You created us so that we went to You, and our heart is anxious, until it rests in You”. It starts then studies of Biologie and Philosophie in May 1942 with Munich.

Because of its catholic education, declared opposition of his/her father to the Nazism, and experiment lived by his/her brother, military medical student in Munich, then male nurse in the hospitals of the face of the East, which is pilot cruelty Nazi against the Jews and populations Russian, it opens the eyes on the situation of Germany. As from June 1942, it holds of the meetings with her brother Hans and Carl Muth. It helps them to print and diffuse the hostile leaflets with the Nazi regime and the war.

After having launched leaflets in the interior court of the University of Munich, she is denounced with the Gestapo by the caretaker of the university and is stopped with her Hans brother the February 18th 1943. Led in front of the “Volksgerichtshof” (“Court of the people”), she is condemned to died after a lawsuit carried out in three hours only. It is Roland Freisler itself, the chief of the Court of the people, come especially from Berlin, which announces the sentence for facts of “ high treason, subversive propaganda, complicity with the enemy and demoralization of the military forces ”. It will be carried out the very same day the February 22nd 1943 in Munich by decapitation and that in spite of the German legislation which imposed a 99 days deadline before the execution of one condemned. It shows much courage during its execution, according to the testimony of the prison warders.

It is then buried in the cemetery close to the forest of Perlach, at the sides of her brother Hans and Christoph Probst, carried out the same day.

A few days after its death, Thomas Mann pays homage to him on the waves of BBC.

Posterity

The fall of the wall in 1989 and the access to the files of the ex- GDR made it possible to discover the official reports of Gestapo of the interrogations of the 2 students.

In Germany, many schools bear the name of Sophie and Hans Scholl.

A literary prize, the Price brother and sister Scholl, was created in.

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