The White Rose was an anti-Nazi resistance group best known for distributing leaflets against the Nazi's and painting anti-Hitler graffiti around Munich during the Second World War.

The members of The White Rose worked day and night, cranking a hand-operated duplicating machine thousands of times to create the White Rose leaflets which were mailed from various major cities in Southern Germany.

On February 18, 1943, coincidentally the same day that Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels called on the German people to embrace total war in his Sportpalast speech, the Scholls brought a suitcase full of leaflets to the university. They hurriedly dropped stacks of copies in the empty corridors for students to find when they flooded out of lecture rooms. Leaving before the class break, the Scholls noticed that some copies remained in the suitcase and decided it would be a pity not to distribute them. They returned to the atrium, climbed the staircase to the top floor, and Sophie flung the last remaining leaflets into the air. This spontaneous action was observed by the custodian who called the police and Hans and Sophie were taken into Gestapo custody. The other active members were soon arrested, and the group and everyone associated with them were brought in for interrogation.

The Scholls, Probst, Alexander Schmorell and Kurt Huber were brought to court on different trials, sentenced to death and executed in 1943. Many other supporters and collaborators of the group were lately sentenced to prison.

Boro Kitanoski, Peace Action, Macedonia
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