The Leaflets
(Revolinski, Searching for Sophie: Munich, the White Rose, and Sophie Scholl, 2013)
"The leaflets attacked the Nazi regime and mentioned its crimes, from the mass extermination of Jews, to the dictatorship and the elimination of the personal freedoms of Germany’s citizens. Furthermore, it called the Nazi regime evil, and called for Germans to rise up and resist the oppression of their government. The leaflets also contained quotes from great philosophers and highly esteemed writers, demonstrating how they were clearly aimed at the intellectual public, and especially students and professors."
(Global Nonviolent Action Database, n.d.)
(Global Nonviolent Action Database, n.d.)
" Authors were Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell, though it is possible that Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst contributed to the texts. Their voices seem to echo on the pages."
(Lisciotto, The White Rose Leaflets, 2007)
"The idea for the leaflet had not originated with any one person, It had evolved out of months of discussions and a growing sense of trust among a small circle of friends. All of them were repelled by what was happening in Germany... They chose a nonviolent form of resistance to rally the conscience of the nation through printed words" "The first leaflt had called on German citizens to resist the Nazi regime. The second zeroed in on Nazi atrocities in the occupied territories."
(Freedman, We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose
Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler, 2016)
Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler, 2016)