On February 22nd 1943, Sophie Scholl and other members of the resistance group “Weiße Rose” (white rose) where executed by the Nazis
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On February 22nd 1943, Sophie Scholl and other members of the resistance group “Weiße Rose” (white rose) where executed by the Nazis
by Stabile_Feldmaus
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2-3 Germans executed by Germans. And? Then you executed half of Europe as well.
May we never ever need people like the weiße Rose again.
While the international public almost exclusively focuses on Stauffenberg and the plot of 20th July (if at all), there were countless (albeit, of course, far too few) resistance groups active during the Nazi dictatorship. There was Georg Elser, who saw what was to come and meticulously planned to assassinate Hitler in 1939, spending months hollowing out a building column and planting a powerful bomb in it, only to be thwarted by Hitler leaving the event a couple of minutes early (Elser was caught soon after, kept in a concentration camp as a special prisoner, and murdered just before the end of the war). There were 40 (!) more plots uncovered over the following decades.
And then there was the *White Rose* mentioned above. They were a group of Munich university students – most of them studying medicine – who were inspired to resist the Nazi regime by one of their professors, as well as the medical students’ experience being forced to serve in the medical corps on the Eastern front. Hans Scholl was one of those medical students, Sophia Scholl his sister, who studied philosophy and biology. They crafted pamphlets decrying the Nazi’s crimes and secretly spread them around university buildings.
One day, as they were throwing a bunch off the first floor colonnade of the main building’s central hall, they were spotted by a janitor who immediately reported them to the Gestapo, Germany’s secret police. They were arrested, most of the group’s members sniffed out, and executed.
I am a medical student at LMU – I stood where they stood when they threw their pamphlets into [the main building’s atrium](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2AMMCA7/the-atrium-in-the-main-building-of-the-munich-ludwig-maximilians-university-lmu-at-geschwister-scholl-platz-automated-translation-2AMMCA7.jpg) and wondered whether I would have had the same courage.
One of the founders of the white rose has actually been declared a saint in the orthodox church
Nice haircuts, but it’s weird it looks like emo style or something.