Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, the leaders of the German youth group Weisse Rose (White Rose), are arrested by the Gestapo for opposing the Nazi regime.
The White Rose was composed of university (mostly medical) students who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and his regime. The founder, Hans Scholl, was a former member of Hitler Youth who grew disenchanted with Nazi ideology once its real aims became evident. As a student at the University of Munich in 1940-41, he met two Roman Catholic men of letters who redirected his life. Turning from medicine to religion, philosophy, and the arts, Scholl gathered around him like-minded friends who also despised the Nazis, and the White Rose was born.
During the summer of 1942, Scholl and a friend composed four leaflets, which exposed and denounced Nazi and SS atrocities, including the extermination of Jews and Polish nobility, and called for resistance to the regime. The literature was peppered with quotations from great writers and thinkers, from Aristotle to Goethe, and called for the rebirth of the German university. It was aimed at an educated elite within Germany.
The risks involved in such an enterprise were enormous. The lives of average civilians were monitored for any deviation from absolute loyalty to the state. Even a casual remark critical of Hitler or the Nazis could result in arrest by the Gestapo, the regime’s secret police. Yet the students of the White Rose (the origin of the group’s name is uncertain; possibly, it came from the picture of the flower on their leaflets) risked all, motivated purely by idealism, the highest moral and ethical principles, and sympathy for their Jewish neighbors and friends. (Despite the risks, Hans’ sister, Sophie, a biology student at her brother’s university, begged to participate in the activities of the White Rose when she discovered her brother’s covert operation.)
On February 18, 1943, Hans and Sophie left a suitcase filled with copies of yet another leaflet in the main university building. The leaflet stated, in part: “The day of reckoning has come, the reckoning of our German youth with the most abominable tyranny our people has ever endured. In the name of the entire German people we demand of Adolf Hitler’s state the return of personal freedom, the most precious treasure of the Germans which he cunningly has cheated us out of.” The pair were spotted by a janitor and reported to the Gestapo and arrested. Turned over to Hitler’s “People’s Court,” basically a kangaroo court for dispatching dissidents quickly, the Scholls, along with another White Rose member who was caught, were sentenced to death. They were beheaded—a punishment reserved for “political traitors”—on February 23, but not before Hans Scholl proclaimed “Long live freedom!”
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All the current regime would have to do would be to threaten to take away the iPhones of the dummies. Hysteria would break out and they would turn in their grandparents and crippled children.
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.” ― Sophie Scholl
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/801549.Sophie_Scholl
“I pity people who can’t find laughter or at least some bit of amusement in the little doings of the day. I believe I could find something ridiculous even in the saddest moment, if necessary. It has nothing to do with being superficial. It’s a matter of joy in life.” ― Sophie Scholl
We need people with such courage.
We need to BE people with such courage.
FI4Y
he met two Roman Catholic men of letters
Love it! Milk thru nose.
The writer of the article could add the letters which spell the NAMES of these two rando “appeals to authority” injected into this tale in an attemp to lend it actual gravitas…but doesn’t.
Which indicates it was two PAID AGENTS who they met.
Sounds like it was written at Langley.
Probably the conference room 309 at Sub-Basement Three.
CIA=Amerikan Gestapo
time has revealed the best Germans were dispatched mercilessly and the nation suffered immense damage as a consequence. the lesson learned there has not been learned here, but it will be.
The same people who genocided Germany twice are now in the process of genociding America.
But don’t get AK started on his polytheist spirit guides.
ARTHUR BRYANT • 1940
It was, in fact, the German people rather than the discredited ruling class who defeated Bolshevism in central Europe. The surge of revolution that swept Russia in 1918 and was to devastate Spain twenty years later was never allowed to develop into the orgy of mass murder and destruction that it became in these more primitive lands. When power slipped from the exhausted hands of the military caste it was, as Mr. Mowrer has said, Fritz Ebert the saddler, Philipp Scheidemann the tailor and Gustav Noske the carpenter who “snatched it from the streets where the Communists were about to seize it — and handed it back to the astonished generals”.[63]
https://www.unz.com/book/arthur_bryant__unfinished-victory/
Stalin’s War
Sean McMeekin
Why shooting Germans was US Treasury business was not
obvious. Nonetheless, that this was considered Treasury business
by summer 1944 is clear in the historical record. Somehow, in the
aftermath of the Allied landings at Normandy, which brought the
prospect of Germany’s final defeat in sight, a long-running policy
discussion in the Treasury on how to administer the German
economy after the war morphed into an open-ended revenge
fantasy. During the same meeting at which he and White spoke of
death quotas for captured Germans, Morgenthau also proposed “the
complete shut-down of the Ruhr [industrial area]” in terms clearly
designed to inflict maximum human suffering: “Just strip it. I don’t
care what happens to the population.… I would take every mine,
every mill and factory and wreck it… steel, coal, everything. Just
close it down. I am for destroying it first and we will worry about the
population second.… Why should I worry about what happens to [the
German] people?”3
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=58D31575B1F90D1F9525FA87C03A56DE
Hitler answered me with these words: “I have nothing against Jews as such. But Jews are all Communists, and it is the latter who are my enemies; it is against them that my fight is directed.”
Max Planck: My Audience with Adolf Hitler [May 6, 1947]
Coming soon to a US near you!
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHITE ROSE WOULD SURELY HAPPEN HERE IN THE USA IF THE DEMS AND THEIR INTELLECTUAL LACKEYS RUNNING THE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES ALONG WITH ANTIFA AND BLM EVER TRULY GAINED POWER. MILLIONS WOULD BE ROUNDED UP AND SENT TO DEATH CAMPS.
Far too many are awake for that.
America was ethically cleansed and fiscally raped but big cap buffoons like you were to retarded to notice.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757922813061820660.html
millions already have Josey, only the death camps are now sports stadiums, living rooms, airline cockpits, shopping aisles, etc…
At least we aren’t speaking German!!!
MEGA
Make English Germanic Again
Growing up, du lieber WeiBe Rose were my heroes. Who will stand now against the bloody Bolsheviks in DC ?