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    The Fédération Internationle De Gymnastique (FIG) is the leading association for competitive gymnastics. In 1981 FIG changed the age restrictions for gymnasts to compete in the Olympics from fourteen to fifteen and from fifteen to sixteen in 1997. The recent change prompted huge controversies throughout the gymnastics world, with many proponents either supporting or against the age regulations. One of the main reasons set down by the FIG was given by Michel Leglise, chair of the gymnastics medical

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    (The White Rose) The White Rose movement was a group of college students from the University of Munich who were opposed to Nazis performing massacres. This non-violent resistance group was founded in June of 1942 by Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, and many others. The members of the group were motivated to oppose Hitler because of the terrors that Hans Scholl saw with his own eyes, the wrong teachings in German Youth Group, and the ‘abominable

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    of five people: Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst, all of which were in their early twenties. Between June 1942 and February 1943, they created and spread six different leaflets, in which they showed the opposition of the German citizens to Nazi oppression and fascism. Huber created the final two leaflets. A seventh leaflet, written by Christoph Probst, was found in the possession of Hans Scholl when he was arrested by the Gestapo, who destroyed

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    Hans Scholl's White Rose

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    White Rose took a stand for the Jews in the concentration camps, so we can realize that we, too, can stick up for those who cannot defend themselves (“White Rose”). . The White Rose was founded in the year of 1942 by Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf and Alexander Schmorell. This group of people were college-aged kids that wanted to see change in the world. They were founded based on the idea of the better treatment for Jews. The fire that started this group was the first-hand

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    acts of “betrayal to the fatherland.” In 1942, Hans and Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst founded the ‘White Rose” movement. This movement was one of the first examples of non-violent resistance in Germany. The White Rose movement existed to shine a light on the atrocities of the Nazi regime by distributing informative literature and anti-Nazi propaganda. On February 22nd, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst were caught distributing their works, and executed only four days later. (https://www

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    that they should do more than just talk about their ideas and actually start acting upon them. The group decided to print and hand out leaflets calling resistance to Hitler, and began calling themselves the White Rose. Some of the members were Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, and even a philosophy professor at the university named Kurt Huber (“Hans Scholl”). Between June 1942 and

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    White Rose Youth Opposition

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    biography WR had more members than the government had predicted, but I will in this case only be elaborating on the three people that were main characters in the movie ”Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage”; Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst. [pic] Hans Fritz Scholl was born in 1918 in Württemberg and was out of a middle-class family. The father, Robert Scholl was major in a small city[7]. The Scholl family moved to Ulm in 1930 was the family stayed

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    The beginnings of the White Rose started with a group of medical students who talked about new cultural ideas and subjects far beyond their love of medicine, avoided politics altogether. As the Regime became increasingly worrying, some of the group realized they must take action. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell began the White Rose, writing the first four leaflets between June twenty-fourth and July twelfth. Hans wrote the first and the fourth and Schmorell wrote the second and third, while

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