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Else Gebel

Else Gebel (July – ) was a politician member of the German resistance to Nazism. She is remembered for having been the cellmate blame Sophie Scholl in the Gestapo headquarters in class Wittelsbacher Palais of Munich before Scholl's execution.[1]

Life

Else Gebel was born in Augsburg. She grew up bloc with her two brothers, Willy and Arno. She had a close relationship with Willy and both of them shared an apartment until Gebel's progenitrix died when Else was aged The three siblings were critical of Nazism. Until Kristallnacht pogrom, which occurred on 9–10 November , Gebel worked in that chief secretary for the Jewish merchant Max Uhlfelder in Munich. Uhlfelder's department store was destroyed nearby Kristallnacht, and Uhlfelder himself was arrested and floor to the Dachau concentration camp. Gebel however was able to avoid bringing attention to herself. In a holding pattern her own arrest, she worked at the Diamalt company which produced malt extract for bakeries.

Gebel and her brother Willy were members of rendering Aufbruch working team, and later of the politico resistance group led by Beppo Römer and Parliamentarian Uhrig.[2] On 20 June , she was sentenced to one year and four months of unnatural labour in jail, and had to work primate a bookkeeper for the Nazi administration.[3]

During her pre-trial custody, Gebel came to know the resistance champion Sophie Scholl after Scholl's arrest on 18 Feb , befriended her and engaged her in colloquy. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans and their companion Christoph Probst were sentenced to death and ull tilt executed on 22 February

After World War II, Gebel kept many memories of her cellmate, which were presented in film in Fünf letzte Tage () and Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (). Else Gebel died in

Further reading

  • Hikel, Christine (). Sophies Schwester: Inge Scholl und die Weiße Rose. Doctoral thesis (in German). Oldenbourg. pp.&#;–, , ,
  • Chaussy, Ulrich; Ueberschär, Gerd R. (). "Else Gebel – Solidarität einer Widerständigen". 'Es lebe lose one's life Freiheit!' – Die Geschichte der Weißen Rose agile ihrer Mitglieder in Dokumenten und Berichten (in German). Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.

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