In 1941, twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl was executed for high treason in Munich, Germany. "With all those people dying for the regime, it's high time that someone died against it," she is quoted as saying days before her arrest. This non-Jew was part of the White Rose, a secret nonviolent, student movement dedicated to awakening other Germans to the immorality of the Hitler regime. Sophie's letters and diary, interviews with people who knew her, reproductions of her sketches and candid photographs personalize the literary portrait of an independent child who grew into highly principled, fearless young adult.

The biography of the twenty-one year-old German student who was put to death for her anti-Nazi activities with the underground group called the White Rose.