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The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪ̯sə ˈʁoːzə] ⓘ) 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.
White Rose, German anti-Nazi group formed in Munich in 1942. The members of the White Rose used leaflets to advocate nonviolent resistance to the Nazis and proposed that ‘every nation deserves the government that it endures.’
The “White Rose” movement was one of the few German groups that spoke out against Nazi genocidal policies. Nazi tyranny and the apathy of German citizens in the face of the regime’s “abominable crimes” outraged idealistic “White Rose” members.
Feb 17, 2023 · The gripping story of the Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement during World War II. By all accounts, the White Rose activists were among the first within...
- Jud Newborn
She was a key member of the Weiße Rose (White Rose)—a resistance group run by students at the University of Munich who distributed leaflets and used graffiti to decry Nazi crimes and the political system, while calling for resistance to the Nazi state and the war.
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Feb 22, 2013 · 22 February 2013. By Lucy Burns. BBC World Service. Seventy years ago today, three German students were executed in Munich for leading a resistance movement against Hitler. Since then, the members...
Feb 22, 2017 · It was a violent end to a peaceful student movement known as the White Rose—one that used the power of language to resist the horrors of the Nazi regime. The White Rose emerged from a core...
