The White Rose
The White Rose is a story about a group led by Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, students at a German University who took a stand against their country. Their story is a lesson of courage, principle and honor.
As most other German teenagers in the 1930s, they enthusiastically joined the Hitler Youth and believed that Adolf Hitler was leading Germany and the German people back to greatness. Their parents disagreed and believed the Nazis were leading Germany down a road of destruction. Over time, Hans and Sophie began realizing that their father was right. They finally realized that, in the name of freedom and the greater good of the German nation, Hitler and the Nazis were enslaving and destroying the German people.
But as most Germans believed they must support their country, Hans and Sophie Scholl began to feel differently and decided to stand up against an evil regime, especially when it is sending hundreds of thousands of its citizens to their deaths. They began sharing their feelings with a few of their friends and professors.
In 1942, copies of a leaflet entitled “The White Rose” suddenly appeared at the University of Munich, which contained an anonymous essay that said that the Nazi system had imprisoned German people and had turned evil. It was time, the essay said, for Germans to rise up and resist the tyranny of their own government. At the bottom of the essay, the following request appeared: “Please make as many copies of this leaflet as you can and distribute them.” Of course, this action caused a tremendous stir among the student body. It was the first time that internal dissent against the Nazi regime had surfaced in Germany. The essay had been secretly written and distributed by Hans Scholl and his friends.
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Then more leaflets began to appear, in all six were published and distributed by Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. The members of The White Rose, of course, had to act cautiously and knew what would happen to them if they were caught. People began receiving copies of the leaflets in the mail and students at the University of Hamburg began copying and distributing to different parts of Germany and Austria.
On February 18, 1943, Hans’ and Sophie’s luck ran out. They were caught leaving pamphlets at the University of Munich and were arrested, along with a friend. The three of them were indicted for treason. After a brief trial, they were sentenced to death. They were executed by a guillotine, but held firm to their belief and died with honor. Later, other students linked to the event were executed.
Today, every German knows the story of The White Rose. A square at the University of Munich is named after Hans and Sophie Scholl. And there are streets, squares, and schools all over Germany named for the members of The White Rose.
