Sophie Scholl and members of White Rose

One of the most disturbing, heart-rending and thought-provoking films we have ever seen was “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days”.

The movie covers the efforts of a resistance group fighting the Nazis called “White Rose” Although the White Rose is well known in Germany, it is not well known overseas.

Der Weissen Rose was a group of mostly students at the University of Munich in Bavaria. Some were studying philosophy. Most, but not all, were religious in some way. Some of the boys had done military service but were allowed to do stints at university between stints on the Eastern Front. This experience provided them with more knowledge of what was actually going on than the average person living in Germany at the time, and it appalled them, but in their courageous resistance they still come across as young and somewhat naïve. It is this naivety that has made the White Rose so appealing. The operated from “pure” theological and philosophical intellectual opposition to National Socialism, to fascism, to dictatorship, to the war, and to the slaughter of Europe’s Jews.

To believe that there was very little resistance to Hitler inside Germany is a serious misunderstanding. Resistance to the Nazis began, of course, before they even came to power, and continued during the thirties and throughout the war.

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Interesting article.  Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

I had not heard of these folks. Thanks for bringing it up.

Wow. Thank for sharing. Damned shame they're not more well known.

This is what real courage  looks like.


I highly   recommend   the movie .

Helmuth Hübener was another brave youth who stood up to the Nazi regime and paid for it with his life.

Ive seen that photo before, is it the only one of them?

They are very well known in Germany today. "Sophie" has been the most popular female name in Germany for decades because of Sophie Scholl.

William Shrirer mentions them in his book, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.  What a very comprehensive book.

Makes me wonder how many of these stories are out there that I've never heard. Crazy. Thanks op

I've been studying the French wars in Indochina and Algeria intensively for five years and I discover something new every other day. We could devote our entire lives to the craft, but we won't even be able to scratch the surface. Most of history is irretrievable; lost to witnesses long forgotten.