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What Is The Moral Obligation Of The White Rose By Adolf Hitler

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Many Germans falsely believed that Adolf Hitler, with his audacity and palpable devotion to his country, had the ability to successfully repair and reunite a broken Germany. Hitler’s rise to power imposed a new set of rules on the German population as a whole. Any citizen who showed opposition to the Nazi regime risked allegations of treason. With their unrivaled bravery, only one group, composed of students from the University of Munich, dared to speak out against the Nazi ruling party. This group, known as the White Rose, risked their lives by distributing leaflets that condemned the Nazi regime and its deadly policies. Though they knew that they faced almost certain death, the White Rose continued to fight tirelessly because their courage assured those who secretly opposed Hitler that they were not alone, and enlightened those who were not yet conscious of his murderous intentions. The White Rose symbolizes the importance of fighting for freedom if it is ever jeopardized. The non-violent resistance movement, which was initiated in 1942 by Hans Scholl, was composed of college students from the University of Munich. In her book The White Rose, the eldest of the Scholl children, Inge Scholl, describes that these students felt it was their moral obligation to “try to kindle …show more content…

In order to be as secretive as possible, they worked late in the night (Scholl, 37). They met secretly in a garden house behind the apartment where Hans and Sophie Scholl lived (Scholl, 41). Here, they printed thousands of leaflets using a duplicating machine. Since the mimeograph machine had to be hand-cranked, the students took turns cranking it (Vinke, 136). In her book, Inge Scholl describes that though the group was filled with fear of being caught by the Gestapo, “a great sense of satisfaction also filled them as they worked” (Scholl,

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