Traute Lafrenz took part in efforts with Sophie and Hans Scholl to distribute leaflets denouncing Hitler and his regime; was arrested by Gestapo and detained for a year

Governor of Bavaria notes that activist, who was executed for criticizing Hitler and the war, was ready to 'sacrifice this life for freedom, for her stance, for her conscience'

Heiko Maas says recent comparison to Anne Frank and resistance fighter Sophie Scholl 'trivializes the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetting of history'