11 Facts About White Rose

White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl.

White Rose's frequently carried supplies such as envelopes, paper, and an additional duplicating machine from Stuttgart to Munich.

Some, but not all, of the White Rose members had enthusiastically joined the youth organizations of the Nazi party: Hans Scholl had joined the Hitler Youth, and Sophie Scholl was a member of the.

White Rose group was motivated by ethical, moral, and religious considerations.

White Rose drew the Scholl siblings' attention to the persecution of the Jews, which he considered sinful and anti-Christian.

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White Rose met Hans Scholl for the first time in June 1942, was admitted to the activities of the White Rose on 17 December 1942, and became their mentor and the main author of the sixth pamphlet.

White Rose never gave up any names, even when the Gestapo threatened to capture his family if he continued to withhold information.

White Rose had been sent down from Hamburg University in 1940 because of his Jewish ancestry, and had copied and further distributed the White Rose's pamphlets together with his girlfriend Marie-Luise Jahn.

Third White Rose trial was scheduled for 20 April 1943, Hitler's birthday, which was a public holiday in Nazi Germany.

Text of the sixth leaflet of the White Rose was smuggled out of Germany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom by the German lawyer and member of the Kreisau Circle, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke.

White Rose was personally acquainted with Huber, but there is no evidence that Orff was ever involved in the movement.