The World War II ( Wwii )

They prepared and distributed “six different leaflets, in which they called for the active opposition of the German people to Nazi oppression and tyranny” (“The White Rose”). The members of the White Rose worked day and night using hand-operated machines “to create the leaflets which were each stuffed into envelopes, stamped, and… distributed throughout Germany” (“The White Rose”). Producing and distributing the leaflets was very difficult as well as dangerous. Since their leaflets went against Germany’s rule, it a crime and if they were caught, they would be arrested and killed. In addition to distributing the leaflets, they “used tar and paint to write slogans on the sides of houses on Ludwigstrasse, a main thoroughfare in Munich near the University” (“The White Rose”). They wrote “"Down With Hitler", "Hitler Mass Murderer", "freedom", and drew crossed-out swastikas... while policemen and other officials patrolled the streets of Munich” (“The White Rose”). Writing these slogans was the most dangerous activity carried out by the White Rose. Their act of resistance resulted in the members of the White Rose being either arrested or killed for their crimes against

The beginning of Nazi resistance manifested as anti-Nazi articles written and distributed in Germany by Communists, Socialists, trade unionists, and anyone who openly disagreed with Hitler. Many of these people were caught and sent to concentration camps for these acts of “betrayal to the fatherland.” In 1942, Hans and Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst founded the ‘White Rose” movement. This movement was one of the first examples of non-violent resistance in Germany. The White Rose movement existed to shine a light on the atrocities of the Nazi regime by distributing informative literature and anti-Nazi propaganda. On February 22nd, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst were caught distributing their works, and executed only four days later.

When someone orders you to do something that you know is wrong, are you going to do it? Or are you going to stand up for what you believe in? I believe that you should be persecuted for any wrongdoings even if you were held against your own will. Our conscious, is our biggest enemy. It tells us what we really should be doing even if we really don’t like the outcome. When the Germans were under the influence of Adolf Hitler, they had the choice like everyone else. Either follow under his notorious reign, or choose the pathway and freedom of the people. Their actions for choosing Hitler, caused them to receive the punishment they deserved for their future. They injured innocent people under his command, which stained their hands. This will haunt them forever.

However, this evidence is not compelling. As professor of psychology, Ervin Staub of the University of Massachusetts writes, “ Bystanders play a far more critical role in society than people realize. Bystanders... help shape society by their reactions... They can define the meaning of events and move others toward empathy or indifference...they can affirm the perpetrators” (Stromer 371). Although bystanders were not directly involved in the atrocities committed against Jews, “their reactions” alone changed the course of history. Individual’s actions have the power to influence others to do the same, especially during dilemmas where a person’s safety is at risk . The inactions of bystanders, led others around them to chose the path of complacency. Because the German public was complacent, “they…[affirmed] the perpetrators”. There was no resistance preventing the Nazi’s from perpetuating anti-semitism and committing mass murder; hence the cycle of injustice

It was an extraordinary thing, to risk your life for ink on paper, and pay for it all with the rolling of your disembodied head. In World War II Germany, where a once glorious country had been stripped of any honor or freedom by their Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. The right to speak with your tongue and mind was a foreign concept, yet a group of ambitious and well-rounded students from Munich University rose up with their pen and paper that spoke volume against Nazi Germany’s violence and discrimination. The White Rose was a nonviolence-based group of students who went against Hitler’s intolerant regime through thought-provoking leaflets and other writings, encouraging others to look beyond the government-controlled media with their efforts that would

When looking into the history of Germany and determining what led to the startling rise in Nazism in Germany and its detrimental effects on the social outcasts in Europe, it can be easy to deduce that the Nazi regime was one where Hitler walked in with his officials and took office by force. The truth is that, while the Nazi party is responsible for the atrocities that occurred before and during WWII, they would have not gotten far if it hadn’t been for the cooperation of the German people themselves. Life in the Third Reich provides proof through voting, youth programs and village life that the Nazi party rose into power with German support.

In Nazi, Germany during World War II in 1942 a group including Willi Graf, Alexander Schmorell, Kurt Huber Christoph Probst, Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie Scholl formed a non-violent resistance group that made leaflets. The group was influenced by a young German youth group that Chrisoph Probst was a member of. Hans Scholl was a member of the Hitler Youth until 1936 and Sophie was a member of the Bund Deutscher Mädel. Willi Graf was a member of Neudeutschland, a young catholic youth association. and the Grauer Orden. The group they all formed was called The White Rose. The group co-authored six anti-Nazi Third Reich political resistance leaflets (Lisciotto).

While the nationalism of the Nazi regime was an overarching cultural and sociopolitical influence in Germany during the era of WWII, there was indeed much internal resistance within the European nation. Count Claus von Stauffenberg is an infamous resister of the Third Reich’s rule that has often been immortalized to hero status. I believe this source will help create a more comprehensive depiction of the Nazi regime and assimilate the notion that the mores of the time did not uniformly coincide with the sensibilities and beliefs of everyone at Germany at the

Yesterday, a 17 year old boy named Helmuth Hubener was convicted of deliberate listening to foreign radio stations and willfully distributing that news, which of course is forbidden for us German citizens of this time to keep us all safe according to Hitler, and he was also convicted of conspiracy to commit high treason. Hubener, after listening to the foreign radio stations, made leaflets of what he considered to be the truth and spread them all around town. What he thought was the truth was truly just what Hitler calls corrupted information from our enemies of the United Kingdom, but Helmuth Hubener didn’t work alone. He had help from his friends Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, Ruddi Wobbe, and Gerhard Duwer. Hubener was sentenced

Hans Scholl had served on the eastern front for the German army and this is where he witnessed the gruesome treatment of Jews by the Nazis (Lisciotto). Most of the other members had heard of this treatment only by word of mouth, but Hans’ experience gave concrete evidence against the Nazis (“White Rose”).

​No matter how small a person is or how much power he/she has, they can change anything. The Nazis were often noted as a vigorous group, as a result, its citizens had almost no power or rights. Helmuth Hubener and his friends took a stand against the Nazis by not only standing up for themselves and Germany, but spreading ideas and conveying to people the hope of a new Germany. A Germany with freedom, rights, and dignity.

The White Rose-- a movement that opposed the tyrannical ideologies of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler. Risking their lives to spread word of how restrained the German population were by the philosophies of Adolf Hitler, and how obliviously inattentive they were constrained to the ideas of fascism and militarism, no one dared to start active opposition. The Nazi regime sustained a vise grip over German society. The Gestapo hastily and effortlessly shattered any internal resistance. These are voices that stood out and faced impending death to break a silence.

While Hitler kept Jews in the concentration camps, there were some Jewish and non-Jewish people that tried and stop this brutality or help the Jews. They knew what hitler was doing with the Jews and his plans.They tried to do something to try and help the people. Some of them where The White Rose society, Rose Blanche, and Resistances in the ghettos.

From 1933 to 1945, Germany was under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist Socialist German Party, or Nazi Party. The group promoted German pride and Anti-Semitism, hate towards Jews, and expressed disgust towards the Treaty of Versailles, a peace document signed between Germany and the Allies at the end of World War 1 (History.com Staff). In order to grow his movement, Hitler recruited Germans for his armies, his factory workers, and his death camp guards. Because of this, it was easy to assume that all Germans supported the Nazi dictatorship and the ideas they preached. However, throughout this time period many Germans of different political and religious beliefs came together to protest against the regime.

The morality of every person dictates the innate unrighteousness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Hitler sent millions to their deathbeds during the Holocaust. Historians often attribute this moral failure to the blissful ignorance of the German people, due to the fear propagated by the Nazis which enveloped them like a blanket, and prejudice of other nations. Total complacency was a remarkable failure of the human conscience, but a few brave people in Munich, Germany, proved to the world that conscientiousness still existed. It is for their readiness to die to end the silence that The White Rose has become illustrious.