The White Rose

[kentuck]

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/whiterose.html

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In the early summer of 1942, a group of young men — including Willi Graf, Christoph Probst and Hans Schol formed a a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of a number of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to the Nazis regime.

The group co-authored six anti-Nazi Third Reich political resistance leaflets. Calling themselves the White Rose, they instructed Germans to passively resist the Nazis. They had been horrified by the behavior of the Germans on the Eastern Front where they had witnessed a group of naked Jews being shot in a pit.

The core of the White Rose consisted of five students — Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Christoph Probst, all in their early twenties — also members were Hans and Sophie's sister Inge Scholl, and a professor of philosophy, Kurt Huber.

Between June 1942 and February 1943, they prepared and distributed six different leaflets, in which they called for the active opposition of the German people to Nazi oppression and tyranny. Huber drafted the final two leaflets. A draft of a seventh leaflet, written by Christoph Probst, was found in the possession of Hans Scholl at the time of his arrest by the Gestapo, who destroyed it.

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1. Beware of those who fear the dissident .

[kentuck]

2. The First Leaflet

"Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government. Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the veil has fallen from our eyes and the most horrible of crimes - crimes that infinitely outdistance every human measure - reach the light of day?

If the German people are already so corrupted and spiritually crushed that they do not raise a hand, frivolously trusting in a questionable faith in lawful order of history; if they surrender man’s highest principle, that which raises him above all other God’s creatures, his free will; if they abandon the will to take decisive action and turn the wheel of history and thus subject it to their own rational decision; if they are so devoid of all individuality, have already gone so far along the road toward turning into a spiritless and cowardly mass - then, yes, they deserve their downfall. Goethe speaks of the Germans as a tragic people, like the Jews and the Greeks, but today it would appear rather that they are a spineless, will-less herd of hangers-on, who now - the marrow sucked out of their bones, robbed of their center of stability - are waiting to be hounded to their destruction. "

...more from link in op.

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4. Thanks !!!!

[mopinko]

3. one of the nicest compliments i ever got

was a fellow artist who made me a little drawing of a white rose, and framed it and everything.

i had to go meet him. in 08 he had big letters spelling out- obama- on his fence. it was not only repeatedly defaced, someone actually threw a small molotov cocktail at his house.
this in chicago, but a heavily jewish orthodox neighborhood. and ya know, joe lie-berman told them obama was evil.

i was driving an old suburban literally covered w anti-bush, anti-war, pro-obama bumperstickers. big ones. i drew quite a crowd, but they wouldnt speak w me because i was female.

i couldnt believe it was my city.

so a few days later he showed up at my door w that lovely little picture.
a real treasure.

[kentuck]

5. That is very cool !

Thanks for sharing that.