More members of the White Rose were caught and executed. Many students from the University of Hamburg were either executed or sent to concentration camps. Sophies legacy lives on. In a poll to find the ‘greatest German’ Sophie and her brother were voted to be fourth. Among the younger generation (under 40) they were most popular. On February 22, 2003, a bust of Sophie Scholl was unveiled by the government of Bavaria in the Walhalla temple. In 2005, a movie about Sophie Scholl’s last days was made featuring Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl: The Final Days).
"Sophie Scholl's inspirational and life-affirming story is not just another story about the past. It is a story of vital importance in the present and about the future. It is a story of bravery, of personal conscience and of freedom of opinion. It is really a story of today, about you and me. We must never forget she was just 21 years old when she was killed by the Nazis, but she possessed a life-affirming personality no dictatorship could ever silence." - Frank McDonough
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