This article is about the German resistance movement. For other uses, see White Rose (disambiguation).
White Rose Resistance Group
Monument to the "Weiße Rose" in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Founded
27 June 1942; 81 years ago (1942-06-27) in Munich, Nazi Germany
Founder
Hans Scholl
Alexander Schmorell
Defunct
1943
The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced[ˈvaɪ̯səˈʁoːzə]ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign that called for active opposition to the Nazi regime. Their activities started in Munich on 27 June 1942; they ended with the arrest of the core group by the Gestapo on 18 February 1943.[1] They, as well as other members and supporters of the group who carried on distributing the pamphlets, faced show trials by the Nazi People's Court (Volksgerichtshof); many of them were imprisoned and executed.
Hans and Sophie Scholl, as well as Christoph Probst were executed by guillotine four days after their arrest, on 22 February 1943. During the trial, Sophie interrupted the judge multiple times. No defendants were given any opportunity to speak.
The group wrote, printed and initially distributed their pamphlets in the greater Munich region. Later on, secret carriers brought copies to other cities, mostly in the southern parts of Germany. In July 1943, Allied planes dropped their sixth and final leaflet over Germany with the headline The Manifesto of the Students of Munich. In total, the White Rose authored six leaflets, which were multiplied and spread, in a total of about 15,000 copies. They denounced the Nazi regime's crimes and oppression, and called for resistance. In their second leaflet, they openly denounced the persecution and mass murder of the Jews.[2] By the time of their arrest, the members of the White Rose were just about to establish contacts with other German resistance groups like the Kreisau Circle or the Schulze-Boysen/Harnack group of the Red Orchestra. Today, the White Rose is well known both within Germany and worldwide.
^"1942/43: The White Rose Resistance Group". Archived from the original on 19 October 2017.
^Zubrin, Robert (2012). Merchants of Despair. New York: Encounter Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-59403-476-3.
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