Christoph Hermann Probst (born November 6, 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee – executed February 22, 1943 in Munich) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.
White Rose was the name of a resistance group in Munich in the time of the Third Reich. The group, founded in June 1942, consisted of students from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and distributed leaflets against the Nazis' war policy. C...
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Christoph Hermann Probst (born November 6, 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee – executed February 22, 1943 in Munich) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.
White Rose was the name of a resistance group in Munich in the time of the Third Reich. The group, founded in June 1942, consisted of students from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, and distributed leaflets against the Nazis' war policy. Christoph Probst belonged, along with the Scholl siblings, Willi Graf and Alexander Schmorell to the tightest circle, into which university professor Kurt Huber also came.
The members of White Rose put together, printed and distributed, at the risk of their lives, six leaflets in all. On 18 February 1943, the Scholls were distributing the sixth leaflet at the university when they were discovered by the caretaker, who delivered them to the Gestapo.
On 22 February 1943, Christoph Probst and the Scholls were tried and sentenced together at the...
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