On Feb. 22, 1943, brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, and their colleague in the White Rose resistance organization, Christoph Probst, stood trial before the Volksgericht — the People’s Court that tried political offenses against the Nazi German state. Found guilty of treason by Roland Freisler, head judge of the court, the three were executed that same day.
The method of capital punishment was guillotine.
Their six pamphlets had spread throughout German-held territory before the war ended.
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Freisler, whose crimes were many, was killed in an air raid, with little or no time to anticipate his death.
On 8 January or on 27 October, you might commemorate another of Friesler’s victims, Helmuth Günther Guddat Hübener, beheaded at 17 years old for composing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets.