ZC13267, Volumes 1–16. Sophie flung the last remaining leaflets from the top floor down into the atrium.

Huber thought that the young men were "leaning too much to the left" and he described the White Rose group as "a Communist ring". This was a time that was particularly critical for the Nazi regime; after The members of the core group all shared an academic background as students at Munich University.

This spontaneous action was observed by the university maintenance man, The Scholls and Probst were scheduled to stand trial before the Willi Graf had already been arrested on 18 February 1943; in his interrogations, which continued until his execution in October 1943, he successfully covered other members of the group. The group wrote, printed and initially distributed their pamphlets in the greater Munich region.

But there was something hoydenish about her, too, a coltish vivacity inherited from a Viennese mother that made her an exhilarating companion and playmate. : Traute Lafrenz und die Weiße Rose | Waage, Peter Normann, Subey-Cramer, Antje | ISBN: 9783825178093 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. (17) Traute Lafrenz took the leaflet to Hamburg where a branch of the White Rose group had been established. Their story became so well known that the composer One of Germany's leading literary prizes is called the The White Rose has also received artistic treatments, including the acclaimed The following is a non-exhaustive chronological account of some of the more notable treatments of the White Rose in media, book and artistic form.

Alex Schmorell was usually at his side, his close collaborator. He replied to the young woman that yes, he had received a leaflet.

your own Pins on Pinterest They denounced the Nazi regime's White Rose survivor Jürgen Wittenstein described what it was like for ordinary Germans to live in The government—or rather, the party—controlled everything: the news media, arms, police, the armed forces, the judiciary system, communications, travel, all levels of education from kindergarten to universities, all cultural and religious institutions.

The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in the Third Reich led by a group of students including Hans and Sophie Scholl.They attended the University of Munich.The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign that called for active opposition to the Nazi regime. Since Freisler did not preside over the third trial, the judge acquitted for lack of evidence all but Söhngen, who was sentenced to a six months' term in prison. Sometimes they met in Hans' room for impromptu talk and discussion. The first draft of the fifth leaflet was written by Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell.

We entered into it with body and soul, and we could not understand why our father did not approve, why he was not happy and proud. However, the three men were executed on 13th July, 1943. Both Hans Scholl and Willi Graf were arrested in 1937–38 because of their membership in forbidden Youth Movement organizations. Hans Scholl had joined the Deutsche Jungenschaft 1. 18 February 1943. (32)The White Rose group that Traute Lafrenz set up in Traute Lafrenz would have been an asset and an ornament to any group, being both unusually bright and unusually attractive. There was nothing of the tamed and domesticated Traute Lafrenz had what not many German girls, even the pretty ones, were blessed with: style.

Traute Lafrenz und die Weiße Rose.

But there was something else that drew us with mysterious power and swept us along: the closed ranks of marching youth with banners waving, eyes fixed straight ahead, keeping time to drumbeat and song. Like Alex Schmorell, she had a cosmopolitan air that contrasted vividly with the more provincial ways of the young Bavarians around her. Alexander Schmorell was recognized, denounced and arrested on 24 February 1943, after his return to Munich following an unsuccessful effort to travel to Switzerland. They came from various religious backgrounds.

He was comfortable with women who accepted the role that nature had given them: the comforter, the nurturer, the provider of sanctuary for the struggling man in a hostile world.As he saw it, women were there to pour coffee for the men as they talked over the serious issues of the world; women were not there for intellectual companionship or friendship, but for spiritual succor. Receive complimentary shipping on 6 bottles or more.. ONLINE STORE Shortly after the arrest of the Scholl siblings and Christoph Probst, newspapers published all-points bulletins in search of Alexander Schmorell. They hurriedly dropped stacks of copies in the empty corridors for students to find when they left the lecture rooms.

Willi Graf and Katharina Schüddekopf were devout Catholics.