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Brussels (AP) - The European Parliament gets a Sophie Scholl building.
As parliamentary speaker Jaume Duch announced on Monday evening on Twitter, a parliament building in Brussels is to be named after the resistance fighter against the Nazi regime.
Sophie Scholl was arrested on February 18, 1943 at the age of 21 when she and her brother Hans were distributing leaflets for the "White Rose" resistance movement at Munich University.
Four days later, the Scholl siblings and their comrade in arms, Christoph Probst, were executed by the Nazis.
Another house is to be named after a leading figure in the Spanish women's suffrage movement, Clara Campoamor.
Scholl and Campoamor were exceptional European women, wrote Duch.
The chairman of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber (CSU), called Scholl a “European role model” on Twitter.
The future Sophie Scholl building is just a few meters from the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels on Rue Wiertz.
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