The White Rose

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The White Rose

• By
• Sally Butler

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What the White Rose Was

• A German group resisting the Nazis
• Began by students at Munich University
• After all, an end in terror is preferable to
  terror without end. The Second Leaflet

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the Leaders of The White Rose

• Hans Scholl born September 22,1918
• Sophie Scholl born May 9,1921
• Christopher Probst born November 6,1919
• Professor Kurt Huber born October 24, 1893
• Alexander Schmorell born September 16, 1917
• Willi Graf born January 2, 1918

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Hans Scholl
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Sophie Scholl
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Christoph Probst
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Willi Graf
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Professor Huber
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Alexander Schmorell
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Where the Name Came From

• Hans Scholl named the group The White Rose
  because he had been reading a Spanish book with
  the title Rosa Blanco

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What The White Rose Did

• The Scholls and their friends printed and
  distributed several leaflets that spoke out
  against Hitler and the Nazis
• Hans Scholl also started a campaign of graffiti
  against the Nazis

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The first leaflet

• Therefore every individual, conscious of his
  responsibility as a member of Christian and
  Western civilization, must defend himself as best
  he can at this late hour, he must work against
  the scourges of mankind, against fascism and any
  similar system of totalitarianism. Offer passive
  resistance resistance - wherever you may be,
  forestall the spread of this atheistic war
  machine before it is too late, , and before the
  nations last young man has given his blood on
  some battlefield for the hubris of a sub-human.

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The second leaflet

• This leaflet called the German intellectuals to
  come out of hiding and fight the system.
• This was the only leaflet that specifically
  mentions the Jews.
• since the conquest of Poland three hundred
  thousand Jews have been murdered in this country
  in the most bestial way.
• Why do the German people behave so apathetically
  in the face of all these abominable crimes,
  crimes so unworthy of the human race?

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The third leaflet

• why do you not bestir yourselves, why do you
  allow these men who are in power to rob you step
  by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of
  your rights after another, until one day nothing,
  nothing at all will be left but a mechanized
  state system presided over by criminals and
  drunks?
• Suggests that only passive resistance is left
  open to them sabotage of every thing possible

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The fourth leaflet

• Therefore we must warn against all optimism.
• Neither Hitler and Goebbels can have counted the
  dead.
• We must attack evil where it is strongest, and
  it is strongest in the power of Hitler.
• We will not be silent. We are your bad
  conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in
  peace.

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The fifth leaflet

• A Call to all Germans!
• It has become a mathematical certainty that
  Hitler is leading the German people into the
  abyss. Hitler cannot win the war he can only
  prolong it.
• Germans! Do you and your children want to
  suffer the same fate that befell the Jews?
• Are we to be forever the nation which is hated
  and rejected by all mankind? No.

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The sixth leaflet

• Fellow Fighters in the Resistance!
• Three hundred and thirty thousand German men
  have been senselessly and irresponsibly driven to
  death and destruction by the inspired strategy of
  our World War I Private First Class. Furher, we
  thank you!
• We grew up in a state in which all free
  expression of opinion is unscrupulously
  suppressed.
• For us there is but one slogan fight against
  the party!

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Outcomes

• The spread of The White Rose
• What Happened to the members of the White Rose?
• There is a memorial to The White Rose
• There are also streets, schools, and plazas named
  for the members of The White Rose

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White Rose Memorial
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Discussion Questions

• Has anyone ever heard of any other Nazi
  resistance groups?
• Why did more people not join the resistance
  efforts?
• Why did these people stand against Hitler and the
  Nazis? Would you call them heroes or fools?
• Why did they choose this method of resistance?
  Was it successful?
• Would you have joined them? Especially, if you
  knew it could mean death for you, and for any of
  the people close to you.

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Works Cited

• http//weisse-rose-crailsheim.de/index.php?showha
  ns-schollseite3 (picture of Hans Scholl-
  military)
• http//www.dkp-karlsruhe.de/geschichte/antifaschis
  mus/hans-scholl-weisse-rose.html (Hans Scholl
  civilian)
• http//www.ushmm.org/wlc/fr/media_ph.php?ModuleId
  65MediaId1230 (Christoph Probst)
• whiterose.jpgadupci.jpg, image/jpeg, 450x308
  (Sophie with Hans and Christoph)
• http//www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/ima
  ges/SophieScholl.jpg (Sophie Scholl)

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Works Cited

• http//www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/whi
  terose.html (Willi Graf)
• http//www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/whi
  terose.html (Professor Kurt Huber)
• http//www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/whi
  terose.html (Alexander Schmorell)
• http//miami.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/4607.php
  (White Rose Memorial)
• Scholl, Inge, and Dorothee Solle. The White
  Rose Munich,
  1942-1943. Middletown, Conn Wesleyan University
  Press, 1983. Print.

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Works Cited

• Scholl, Hans, Inge Jens, and Sophie Scholl. At
  the Heart of the White Rose Letters and Diaries
  of Hans and Sophie Scholl. New York Harper
  Row, 1987. Print.