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Sophie Scholl’s Signed Membership Suspension Request From the Bund Deutscher Mädel. In Hamburg: Dated on December 4, 1939. Oblong, printed form on light green paper. Signed in ink by Sophia [Sophie] Scholl. Filled by typewriter and handwriting. With the printed letterhead of the Hitler Jugend and the stamp of the NSDAP, Bund Deutscher Mädel of Altona (Hamburg) Untergau 31. Registry stamp filled in ink. 210 × 148 mm. Folded once. Very slightly discolored at the edges and the folding due to aging. Hole punched at the left edge. Tiny tears at the upper and lower edges at the folding. Otherwise in fine condition. An extremely rare, signed document by anti-Nazi resistance figure Sophie Scholl, requesting suspension of her membership in the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female branch of the Hitler Youth. Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German resistance hero whose active opposition to the Nazis led to her execution in 1943. Scholl was born into a liberal Lutheran family in 1921 in Forchtenberg, a small town in southern Germany. In the early 1930s, the family moved to Ulm, where Sophie—like most German girls at age 12—joined the female section of the Hitler Youth, the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM; League of German Girls). Her initial enthusiasm gradually gave way to criticism of the organization’s militarism. Sophie’s father was a Nazi critic, and her brother Hans participated in the outlawed German Youth Movement; as a result, both were briefly arrested—Hans in 1937 and their father Robert in 1942. After graduating from secondary school, Sophie became a kindergarten teacher, hoping this role would serve as an alternative to the compulsory Reichsarbeitsdienst (National Labor Service) or its counterpart, the Landjahr (Country Service)—which she was actually summoned for, as the present document proves. This was not the case, however, and in November 1941, she began a six-month auxiliary war service as a nursery teacher in Blumberg. After completing her service, she enrolled at the University of Munich in May 1942, where her brother Hans was already studying. There, Sophie and Hans, along with three fellow students, formed a group called The White Rose, which soon became politically active. They began publishing and distributing leaflets calling for the restoration of democracy and justice. Sophie, Hans, and Christoph Probst, a fellow member of The White Rose, were arrested for distributing their sixth leaflet on February 18, 1943. After a brief trial, they were found guilty of high treason, condemned to death, and executed on February 22, 1943. The present document is Sophie Scholl’s request to suspend her membership in the Bund Deutscher Mädel, submitted in Hamburg, Altona, on December 4, 1939. She applied for suspension upon being summoned for the six-month compulsory Landjahr, scheduled from April 20 to December 20, 1940. The Landjahr was a rural educational program intended to prepare selected youth “to become responsible young Germans.” This signed, countersigned, and stamped document was sent to the BDM Untergau (sub-district) 120 in Ulm, where it was filed on December 12, 1939. According to a joint handwritten letter sent by Johann C. Neuhofer to Dr. Rüsch on June 25, 1954, the document was found in an old Hitler Jugend file in Ulm and was purchased by Neuhofer in 1950. Another typewritten letter, a reply from the Oberamtspflege Ludwigsburg to Neuhofer’s inquiry dated September 10, 1950, reports information found in the files of the former BDM Obergau 20 (Württemberg) regarding Sophie Scholl. It provides an account of Scholl’s history in the BDM, from her entry in 1934 until her discharge in 1941. Anything contemporary, especially signed documents related to Sophie Scholl, is virtually unobtainable. Aside from this document, we could not trace any similar items in auction records or on the market.
50000,- EUR Sachgebiete: Autographen, Geschichte, Handschriften, Nationalsozialismus Kontakt zum
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