Inge Aicher-Scholl was the daughter of
Robert Scholl, mayor of
Forchtenberg, and elder sister of
Hans and
Sophie Scholl, who studied at the
University of Munich in 1942, and were core members of the
White Rose student resistance movement in
Nazi Germany. Inge Scholl wrote several books about the White Rose after the war. The White Rose was a student group who printed and distributed leaflets highly critical of Nazi war crimes, particularly against the Jews on the eastern front. They said the war could not be won and were mostly active after the
Wehrmacht's disastrous reverse at the
Battle of Stalingrad and the collapse of
Operation Barbarossa. They warned that the German people might become "forever the nation hated and rejected by all mankind". Sophie and Hans were caught distributing the leaflets, tried for
treason and executed by
guillotine, along with another White Rose member,
Christoph Probst. Inge and other Scholl family members were arrested and interrogated, but later released. == After the war ==