The White Rose Resistance Movement
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years later
there has been no attempt to recreate a resistance like the white rose and some people even today feel like they go what they deserved a lot of people in Germany don't even like to talk about them or the help they tried to offer.
SOURCES
@Holocaustresearchproject.org
& sophieandhansschollsalmostadiary.com
Trials of the White Resistance
Sophie and Hans were 'questioned' for 4 days their trial was set for February 22 nd 1942,the trial was conducted by Roland Freisler(head judge) their parents were refused entry into the courtroom and after barely 4 hours they both were sentenced to death by guillotine Hans dying words were LONG LIVE FREEDOM!!
later the same year alex, and kurt were both sentenced to the same death
willi graf and christoph both escaped the prison and went on the run to switzlerland but christoph's ex girlfriend turned them in they were executed as well.
members of the white rose
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Alexander Schmorell was a doctor and he grew up in the care of a Russian nurse and he spoke Russian fluently...
Christoph Probst was a very quiet and shy person who along with Alex studied medicine he also married and had 3 children
trinity & christian
Kurt Huber as a child suffered from diphtheria after his Emergancy surgery the Tramatic experience left him with shaky hands he also married and had 2 children
Willi Graf attended catholic church and refused to join Hitler youth he and some friends formed 'new Germany'
Sophie Scholl came from a very close knit family and her father was a strong opponent to Hitler her Involvment in the League Of German Girls caused a strain in the relationship with her father but they had a 'mutual understanding'
Hans Scholl was Sophie's big brother and the more dominate of the siblings he joined Hitlers youth much of his fathers disappointment
THE LEAFLETS
Brief History
The White Rose was a Nonviolent organization of students and teachers at Munich University the name White Rose came from a spanish novel 'Rosa Blanco' the White rose was influenced by the German youth group
because the Resistance was Nonviolent they
needed a way to let the people of Germany know that Hitler and his terror was wrong
in the summer of 1942, the first 4 of the 6 leaftlets were written by Alex Schmorell and Hans Scholl
not exceeding 100 copies they passed them out in Germany out of the 100, 35 were turned over to the authorities. the leaflets described how the group felt about Hitler and how if 'they' as people came together they could overthrow Hitler, and how they are more slaves than a united country.
The White Rose Resistance Movement June 1942-February 1943
The Dangerous Act
On February the 3rd,8th,and 15th Hans,Alex,and Willi, used tar to paint anti Hitler slogans on the sides of homes in Ludwig Strasse, on the 18th sophie and her brother hans personally delivered the leaflets throughout Munich University a custodian Jakob Schmid witnessed the act and reported them they were take into custody..... the rest of the resistance soon followed