White Roses, Group That Will Always Be Remembered

Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the role adversity plays in shaping an individual’s identity.

“How are you?”, is a widely used greeting. It is usually one of the the first phrases one learns in any language, such as “Como estás?” in Spanish and “Comment allez-vous?” in French. The individual automatically replies with “Fine”, “Bien”, or “Bien”. This question does not require a truthful reply. At times, it is easier to hide the truth and reply that one is fine, rather than to explain or go into detail as to why one feels a certain way. Gregory Crewdson’s “Untitled” from his Beneath the Roses photography collection introduces this façade of masking personal pain and the eventual unmasking of one’s true feelings.

Resistance in the mist of WWII and the Holocaust occurred all across Europe and the occupied territories of Nazi Germany. The three groups I’m going to discuss are Zegota, White Rose, and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Each one of these came from three very different areas, but they each resisted Nazi ideology. Each group has their own reason for why they decided to take a stand, whether morally, politically, or religious reasons and while there are differences between the groups many of them have overlapping reasons for their desire to resist.

After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews.

The White Rose was an organization in World War II that did not have the luxury of speaking out in public against the Third Reich. People who even spoke one bad word had some sort of punishment. These acts of treason could lead to death. This is what happened to some of the members of the White Rose (pg

Movement was ran by Adolf Hitler. The Nazi Movement grew very large and ruled over

People are motivated to make a difference when they believe a change must be made and each person has their own motivation to make a change. They realize that they no longer like what is happening in the world, or even in their life, and they decide it must be changed. In A Noble Treason by Richard Hanser, Hans Scholl wants to make a difference and go up against Hitler by writing leaflets under the alias White Rose. Hans Scholl grew up in a family where his parents let him make his own choices and let him believe in whatever he wanted. They never pressured him into their choices and own beliefs. His father did not support Hitler and his beliefs, even though at the time, in Hans Scholl’s life Hitler was an incredibly prominent hero. Hans Scholl joined the Hitler Youth and fought for everything he believed was right. Hans soon realized he and Hitler did not see eye to eye on many things. Hans valued his individuality and Hitler took it from him. Hitler took away all creativity he personally found ugly and forced upon everyone what he thought was beauty. The leaflets Hans Scholl had written was his way of making a difference by bringing forward what the people of Germany may not have noticed was the reality of Hitler's actions. Hans Scholl’s motivation to make a difference was the fact that Hitler put limitations on everything, the more Hans Scholl wanted to learn, the more he was unable to do so, and this caused him to feel that he no longer had his freedom to be an individual.

The Holocaust, an event in the 1930 's and 40 's that changed the world greatly. It was responsible for the killing of 6 million European Jews. Many people think Adolf Hitler was the evil man who was in charge of the ruthless genocide of these people. However, he is not. Adolf Eichmann is the man responsible for creating the "Final Solution" the plan to extreminate the Jewish race.

According to the article, “White Rose”, it says, “...they prepared and distributed 6 different leaflets, in which they called for the active opposition of the German people to Nazi oppression and tyranny.” (H.E.A.R.T). This quote explains how the White Rose group attempted to persuade others into denying Hitler and his views. Persuasion is a powerful tool that was utilized in the fight against Hitler. However, the Holocaust began because of Hitler’s ability to persuade others.

They started producing anti-Nazi Third Reich political resistance leaflets anonymously. The White Rose wanted to “Directly expose the atrocities committed by German forces in the east and encourage Germans to actively oppose the Nazi regime.” The members of the White Rose decided to make leaflets and pamphlets to inform the German people of what was really happening to the Jewish. Nowadays, this does not seem like a significant source to spread news, but back then paper was very expensive and rare. If a non-nazi official obtained paper or stamps, they could be at risk of being convicted of treason. The group made six leaflets, and worked very hard to make about 100 copies each. They stuck them to places where people constantly went, such as phone booths, restaurants, and universities. Sophie Scholl was one of the core members of the group. She attended Munich University, where she released pamphlets in the lecture halls and into the quad of the university. Unfortunately, a custodian caught her in the act and turned her into the authorities. Three days later, Sophie and other core members were convicted and put to death. The remaining members were put in jail. The White Rose was able to effect the Holocaust by spreading the correct message of the Jewish people to the German people, rather than fake news. We still live with the problem of

In World War II Hitler came to power. His group was the Nazis. They mistreated people who were different. Many people stood by and did nothing, but Sir Nicholas Winton made good choices and help.

From 1933 through 1945 was a period of history called the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, people were being killed for their looks, race, and disability. About 11 million people were killed in brutal and tragic ways. Adolf Hitler, the leader, wanted to create a pure race. Racism helped Hitler organize the population into the way he wanted. He wanted people to support the cause of making a pure race. If people opposed, they would be persecuted. Racism allowed Hitler to influence the German people into following his leadership even if it meant genocide.

Hitler represented the Nazi party they wanted to kill off has many Jews as he could, they believed if they did this Germany would recovery from world war 1, also, they believed in a national community formed by so called racially pure people the Nazi party believed there should only be pure Germans. Blonde hair and blue-eyed Germans, they felt if you weren’t a pure German you weren’t a person.

The white rose society were some of the first ones to start this revolt against hitler. Alexander Schmorell and Hans Scholl , both of whom were studying medicine, were the first LMU students to consider mounting an active campaign of resistance against the Nazi regime. Within two weeks, between the 27 June and 12 July 1942, they wrote, printed and distributed the first four “White Rose” protest

In 1923 German workers went on strike against the government. Germany's money value decreased to about nothing. Hitler proclaimed a Nazi revolution or a "putch." While Hitler and 2,000 troops were protesting, the police shot into the crowd, killing 16 troops.