Traute Lafrenz

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Charge:	Aiding and Abetting
Sentence:	1 year
Years Imprisoned:	1
Year Crime:	1943
Year Convicted:	1943
Year Cleared:	1983
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Germany
County or Region of Crime:
City of Crime:	Munich
Result:	Legislature Overturned Conviction
Summary of Case:	"Traute Lafrenz was convicted in the People's Court on April 19, 1943 and sentenced to a year in prison for being associated with the Leaflets of The White Rose. Three of Lafrenz' twelve co-defendants, Alexander Schmorell, Kurt Huber and Willi Graf were convicted of treason, sentenced to death and subsequently executed. The leaflets were distributed around Germany in 1942 and 1943 and exposed crimes committed by the German government in the name of the German people. Lafrenz was able to conceal that she was the link between the Hamburg and Munich branches of the White Rose members, which is why she was only sentenced to a year in prison instead of being sentenced to death as Hans and Sophie Scholl and four other members of the White Rose were condemned and executed. Lafrenz was rearrested after she had completed her sentence and she spent the last year of WWII imprisoned awaiting her trial for treason, after which she could be expected to have been sentenced to death. The town where she was held prisoner was liberated by the Allies in April 1945 three days before her trial was scheduled to begin. The convictions of the White Rose participants were legislatively stripped of any legal force in 1983. Traute Lafrenz Page (married name) is the last surviving member of the White Rose and she is retired in Hollywood, SC. (As of May 2012)"
Conviction Caused By:
Innocence Proved By:	The convictions of the White Rose participants were legislatively stripped of any legal force in 1983.
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Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	23
Age When Released:	24
Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Traute Lafrenz, Wikipedia (last visited May 4, 2012)"
Information Location 1:	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traute_Lafrenz
Information Source 2:	"“A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students Against Hitler,” Richard Hanser, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1979, pp. 319, ISBN: 0-399-12041-6"
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Information Source 3:	"White Rose trial sentencing transcripts, libcom.org"
Information Location 3:	http://libcom.org/library/white-rose-sentencing-transcripts
Information Source 4:	"Germany overturns Nazi-era treason convictions, Associated Press article, Dallas Morning News, September 9, 2009"
Information Location 4:	http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-treason_09int.ART.State.Edition1.4c2d428.html
Information Source 5:	""The Law Under The Swastika - Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany," Michael Stolleis, The University of Chicago Press (1992), p. 157, and endnote 21 at p. 243."
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Book About Case:	"Peter Normann Waage, Leve friheten! Traute Lafrenz og Den hvite rose (Long live freedom! Traute Lafrenz and the White Rose), Oslo, Schibsted, 2011, ISBN 978-82-516-2746-7"
Book Information:
Book About Case (2):	"“A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students Against Hitler,” Richard Hanser, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1979, pp. 319, ISBN: 0-399-12041-6"
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Traute Lafrenz

Charge:

Aiding and Abetting

Sentence:

1 year

Years Imprisoned:

1

Year Crime:

1943

Year Convicted:

1943

Year Cleared:

1983

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Germany

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Munich

Result:

Legislature Overturned Conviction

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

The convictions of the White Rose participants were legislatively stripped of any legal force in 1983.

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

23

Age When Released:

24

Sex:

Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Traute Lafrenz, Wikipedia (last visited May 4, 2012)"

Information Location 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traute_Lafrenz

Information Source 2:

"“A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students Against Hitler,” Richard Hanser, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1979, pp. 319, ISBN: 0-399-12041-6"

Information Location 2:

Information Source 3:

"White Rose trial sentencing transcripts, libcom.org"

Information Location 3:

http://libcom.org/library/white-rose-sentencing-transcripts

Information Source 4:

"Germany overturns Nazi-era treason convictions, Associated Press article, Dallas Morning News, September 9, 2009"

Information Location 4:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-treason_09int.ART.State.Edition1.4c2d428.html

Information Source 5:

""The Law Under The Swastika - Studies on Legal History in Nazi Germany," Michael Stolleis, The University of Chicago Press (1992), p. 157, and endnote 21 at p. 243."

Information Location 5:

Book About Case:

"Peter Normann Waage, Leve friheten! Traute Lafrenz og Den hvite rose (Long live freedom! Traute Lafrenz and the White Rose), Oslo, Schibsted, 2011, ISBN 978-82-516-2746-7"

Book Information:

Book About Case (2):

"“A Noble Treason: The Revolt of the Munich Students Against Hitler,” Richard Hanser, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1979, pp. 319, ISBN: 0-399-12041-6"

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