The White Rose: A Stand Against Nazi Germany
Third & final cut of the documentary competing at the PA state level competition for National History Day 2017
(3rd place overall)
Memory Walk - White Rose Monument
Between July 05-11 2014, Youth Initiative for Human Rights BiH, the Anne Frank House and the Staatliches-Karolinen Gymnasium Rosenheim organized the film workshop Memory Walk in Munich, Germany. In 5 days, 21 participants from Bosnia and Germany went together on a discovery journey to explore and document monuments in their direct surroundings to find out more about these - often competing - cemented memories in stone of World War II. This workshop was funded by EVZ Europeans for Peace Program and the Anne Frank Verein.
White Rose anti Nazi resistance movement in Munich - Die Weiße Rose
The White Rose was a non-violent/intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor.
The core of the White Rose comprised students from the university in Munich—Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl, Alex Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst, Traute Lafrenz, Katharina Schueddekopf, Lieselotte (Lilo) Berndl, Jurgen Wittenstein, and Falk Harnack. Most were in their early twenties. A professor of philosophy and musicology, Kurt Huber, also associated with their cause. Additionally, Wilhelm Geyer, Manfred Eickemeyer, Josef Soehngen, and Harald Dohrn participated in their debates. Geyer taught Alexander Schmorell how to make the tin templates used in the graffiti campaign. Eugen Grimminger of Stuttgart funded their operations. Grimminger's secretary Tilly Hahn contributed her own funds to the cause, and acted as go-between between Grimminger and the group in Munich. She frequently carried supplies such as envelopes, paper, and an additional duplicating machine from Stuttgart to Munich.
Between June 1942 and February 1943, they prepared and distributed six leaflets, in which they called for the active opposition of the German people to Nazi oppression and tyranny. Huber wrote the final leaflet. A draft of a seventh leaflet, designed by Christoph Probst, was found in the possession of Hans Scholl at the time of his arrest by the Gestapo.
Willi Graf saw the Warsaw and Lodz Ghettos, and could not get the images of brutality out of his mind. By February 1943, the young friends sensed the reversal of fortune that the Wehrmacht suffered at Stalingrad would eventually lead to Germany's defeat.
On 18 February 1943, the Scholls brought a suitcase full of leaflets to the university. They dropped stacks of copies in the empty corridors for students to find when they flooded out of lecture rooms. Leaving before the class break, the Scholls noticed that some copies remained in the suitcase and decided it would be a pity not to distribute them. They returned to the atrium and climbed the staircase to the top floor, and Sophie flung the last remaining leaflets into the air. This spontaneous action was observed by the custodian Jakob Schmid. The police were called and Hans and Sophie Scholl were taken into Gestapo custody. The other active members were soon arrested, and the group and everyone associated with them were brought in for interrogation.
The Scholls and Probst were the first to stand trial before the People's Court that tried political offenses against the Nazi German state—on 22 February 1943. They were found guilty of treason and Roland Freisler, head judge of the court, sentenced them to death. The three were executed the same day.. All three were noted for the courage with which they faced their deaths, particularly Sophie, who remained firm despite intense interrogation. She said to Freisler during the trial, You know as well as we do that the war is lost. Why are you so cowardly that you won't admit it?
The second White Rose trial took place on 19 April 1943. Only eleven had been indicted before this trial. At the last minute, the prosecutor added Traute Lafrenz (who was considered so dangerous she was to have had a trial all to herself), Gisela Schertling, and Katharina Schueddekopf. None had a lawyer. One was assigned after the women appeared in court with their friends.
Professor Huber had counted on the good services of his friend, Justizrat Roder, a high-ranking Nazi. Roder had not bothered to visit Huber before the trial and had not read Huber's leaflet. Another lawyer had carried out all the pre-trial paperwork. When Roder realized how damning the evidence was against Huber, he resigned. The junior lawyer took over.
The third White Rose trial was to have taken place on 20 April 1943 because Freisler anticipated death sentences for Wilhelm Geyer, Harald Dohrn, Josef Soehngen, and Manfred Eickemeyer. He did not want too many death sentences at a single trial, and had scheduled those four for the next day. However, the evidence against them was lost, and the trial was postponed until 13 July 1943.
At that trial, Gisela Schertling —who had betrayed most of the friends, even fringe members like Gerhard Feuerle— redeemed herself by recanting her testimony against all of them. Since Freisler did not preside over the third trial, the judge acquitted all but Soehngen (who got only six months in prison) for lack of evidence.
Alexander Schmorell and Kurt Huber were beheaded on 13 July 1943, and Willi Graf on 12 October 1943. Friends and colleagues of the White Rose, who had helped in the preparation and distribution of leaflets and in collecting money for the widow and young children of Probst, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to ten years.
Sophie Scholl And The White Rose Remembered In Munich
Sophie Scholl & The White Rose Remembered
22nd February 1943: Trial and execution of White Rose members
Active from June 1942, the first arrests took place after Sophie Scholl was seen throwing anti-Nazi leaflets from the top floor of the atrium of the University of Munich.
Centred around Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie, the small group of university friends who formed the White Rose printed and distributed their first leaflet in June 1942. They printed six leaflets in total, which were distributed around Germany. The Gestapo itself estimated that 10,000 copies had been produced of the fifth leaflet, entitled “A Call to All Germans!”
Over the course of three nights in early-to-mid February, some members of the group had painted Freedom and Down with Hitler around Munich. Then, on the 18th February 1943, Hans and Sophie distributed over a thousand copies of their sixth leaflet in the hallways of the university. However, they realised that a few copies were still nestled in the bottom of the suitcase they had brought them in and so chose to fling them from the top of the atrium.
They were seen by university janitor, and Nazi Party member, Jakub Schmid who called the Gestapo. The siblings were taken away for interrogation before being sent to trial on the 22nd February. A third member, Christoph Probst, was also tried his handwriting was matched to a draft of a seventh leaflet found in Hans’ possession. They were found guilty of treason, and beheaded later that day by guillotine in the grounds of Stadelheim Prison.
The White Rose Hans and Sophie Scholl
This film bears witness to the courage of two young Germans, Hans and Sophie Scholl,
who because of their faith in Jesus Christ and at the cost of their lives, decided to resist
and denounce the totalitarian Nazi regime in Germany in the 1940's. So it was that
in the spring of 1942, together with their friend Alexander Schmorell, they set up The White Rose resistance group. Today, they are a symbol of German Resistance during the Second World War.
After some time as members of the Hitler Youth, they realised the impact that the Nazi regime was making on young people. Disgusted by Hitler's dictatorship and by the suffering caused by war, Hans and Sophie began to actively resist the Nazi regime. They came from a family of Protestant intellectuals and were avid readers of such authors as Aristotle, St. Augustine
and Goethe. They had the support of their father and were greatly encouraged by their philosophy teacher, Kurt Huber.
Thanks also to Karl Muth, a theology teacher, first Hans and then Sophie found a living faith in God and set out on a campaign of non-violent resistance. Despite the threat of retaliation from Hitler's forces, they produced leaflets for students and put up posters with slogans.
Hans, who was a medical student, was sent to the Eastern front as a nurse and this experience simply strengthened his resolve to combat the policy of the Third Reich. On his return,
The White Rose linked up with a national resistance network and the scope of their action widened as a thousand documents were clandestinely distributed from Munich to Vienna, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
They were arrested in January 1943 while distributing leaflets at the Munich University.
During their trial, Sophie's courage was unshakeable. She declared: We have only said
and written what many people are thinking. But they don't dare express themselves.
Hans Scholl also resisted to the end and said: In a little while, you will be standing where
we are standing today.
Hans and Sophie, and their friend Christopher Probst, were all three sentenced to death four days later.
Driven by the Spirit of Truth, which prevailed above all else in the face of violence and hate, Hans and Sophie remained faithful to their deepest convictions, and fought for human dignity in the name of Jesus Christ.
Ce film est réalisé par la Communauté du Chemin Neuf via le réseau international de prière « Net for God ».
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The White Rose
my tribute to one of those brave Munich students who stood up to the brutality of the Nazis, Sophie scholl a founder member of the White Rose movement, she was caught distributing leaflets in munich university and subsequently executed. to learn more of the white rose and read the leaflets in full use this link;
Leaflets of The Resistance Movement in Germany.
A Call to All Germans!
The war is approaching its destined end. As in the year 1918, the German government is trying to focus attention exclusively on the growing threat of submarine warfare, while in the East the armies are constantly in retreat and invasion in imminent in the West. Mobiliation in the United States has not yet reached its climax, but already it exceeds anything that the world has ever seen. It has become a mathematical certainty that Hitler is leading the German people into the abyss. Hitler cannot win the war; he can only prolong it. The guilt of Hitler and his minions goes beyond all measure. Retribution comes closer and closer.
But what are the German people doing? They will not see and will not listen. Blindly they follow their seducers into ruin. Victory at any price! is inscribed on their banner. I will fight to the last man, says Hitler-but in the meantime the war has already been lost.
Germans! Do you and your children want to suffer the same fate that befell the Jews? Do you want to be judged by the same standards are your seducers? Are we to be forever a nation which is hated and rejected by all mankind? No. Dissociate yourselves from National Socialist gangsterism. Prove by your deeds that you think otherwise. A new war of liberation is about to begin. The better part of the nation will fight on our side. Cast off the cloak of indifference you have wrapped around you. Make the decision before it is too late.
Do not believe the National Socialist propoganda which has driven the fear of Bolshevism into your bones. Do not believe that Germany's welfare is linked to the victory of national Socialism for good or ill. A criminal regime cannot achieve a German victory. Separate yourselves in time from everything connected with National Socialism. In the aftermath a terrible but just judgment will be meted out to those who stayed in hiding, who were cowardly and hesitant.
What can we learn from the outcome of this war-this war that never was a national war?
The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time. A one sided Prussian militarism must never again be allowed to assume power. Only in large-scale cooperation among the nations of Europe can the ground be prepared for reconstruction. Centralized hegemony, such as the Prussian state has tried to excercise in Germany and in Europe, must be cut down at its inception. The Germany of the future must be a federal state. At this juncture only a sound federal system can inbue a weakened Europe with a new life. The workers must be liberated from their condition of down trodden slavery under National Socialism. The illusory structure of autonomous national industry must disappear. Every nation and each man have a right to the goods of the whole world!
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the protection of individual citizens from the abritrary will of criminal regimes of violence-these will be the bases of the New Europe.
Support the resistance, distribute the leaflets!
The White Rose: German Nazi Resistance Movement
The White Rose was a group of a half dozen young adults that formed a passive resistance movement against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany in 1943. For distributing seditious and defeatist propaganda against the National Socialists, they were interrogated by the Gestapo, tried in a kangaroo court, and quickly executed by beheading. The first leaflet they printed was interesting in that it scored the Nazi's for being Atheists, and used a lecture by the poet Friedrich Schiller on Sparta and its creator Lycurgus.
The White Rose:The lost voices of Germany
The White Rose
Music - Ross Budgen: The Legend of Styk Theme
Music - Ross Budgen: Olympus
THE WHITE ROSE [ SOPHIE SCHOLL ] PEACE MEMORIAL CENTRE
The White Rose
New Project 7
Revival of the White Rose, Conny Axel Meier
Conny Axel Meier is one of 8 Islam critical activists who in July of 2012 revived the White Rose(Weiße Rose) resistance movement which was active between1942 and 1943, and best known for its underground leaflets. The White Rose called for citizens to resist the government of the Third Reich.
The idea behind the resurrection of this German patriotic movement was essentially twofold: firstly, the new founders believe that a spirit kindred to that of the Third Reich is now active in German institutions at the very highest levels, although now it is called Left, neo-Marxist, Green or even anti-fascist, and the 5 block parties ruling Germany are at one in this spirit; secondly, they understand that Germany, and the West in general are being gradually Islamised. Islam, in the person of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, is well known to have allied itself with Hitler. Today it is the Muslim Brotherhood, along with other allied moderate Islamic organisations which infiltrates Western Institutions. According to the Ikhwan's Explanatory Memorandum, it is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions.
For an excellent commentary on the relation between Marxism and National Socialism, listen two Marc Doll's interview: Marc Doll was also one of the eight founders of the revived White Rose.
Conny Axel Meier is also Chief Executive of the Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa (Citizens' Movement Pax Europa, BPE), which is the most prominent Human Rights organisation in German (real human rights). It too is involved in the resistance to the Islamisation of Grmany.
Currently, Conny Axel Meier is involved in a court case in Heilbronn northern Baden-Württemberg, which relates to the freedom of speech he discusses in the video. For coverage on this see Gates of Vienna:
The White Rose Memorial
The White Rose Holocaust Memorial
The White Rose (Weiße Rose) Resurrected: Marc Doll - National Socialism, a Movement of the Left
The White Rose (Weiße Rose) Resurrected: Marc Doll - National Socialism, a Movement of the Left
On July 7, 2012 Susanne Zeller-Hirzel, who is now 91 years of age, resurrected the White Rose (Weiße Rose) along with 8 activists. It is well known that the original White Rose was a resistance movement in Munich from 1942 to 1943 during the time of the Third Reich. On the campus of the University of Munich the members of the group called for the overthrow of Hitler, and after the battle for Stalingrad in 1943, called directly for resistance. Susanne Zeller-Hirzel was a close friend of Sophie Scholl who was beheaded by the Nazis on 22 February, 1943. Susanne Zeller escaped death managed to deceive the judge and was released from prison after five months.
The speaker in the video is Marc Doll, Federal Vice Chairman and founding member of the party DIE FREIHEIT, a civil liberties party (Bürgerrechtspartei) in Germany which advocates direct democracy. In the video Marc Doll addresses the thinking behind the establishment of the new White Rose resistance.
The new 'White Rose' has two principal messages to convey:
1. National-Socialism was a left-wing movement.
2. The Nazis are back again, today they call themselves Antifa (a term obviously meant to convey 'anti-Fascism'. In Germany, the 'Antifa' are left-wing movement.)
The White Rose and Their Stand Against Hitler, State Competition
Quick exploration of the ruins of the Nazi Ehren Temples in Munich with peek Underground
The Ehrentemples were a centerpiece of the NS Gebiet (nazi area) of Munich. Here's a quick look at the area of what's there now with a tantalizing look at what's underground. You can see their destruction in this video
Memory Walk - Dodger's Alley & Feldherrnhalle
Between July 05-11 2014, Youth Initiative for Human Rights BiH, the Anne Frank House and the Staatliches-Karolinen Gymnasium Rosenheim organized the film workshop Memory Walk in Munich, Germany. In 5 days, 21 participants from Bosnia and Germany went together on a discovery journey to explore and document monuments in their direct surroundings to find out more about these - often competing - cemented memories in stone of World War II. This workshop was funded by EVZ Europeans for Peace Program and the Anne Frank Verein.
The White Rose Hans and Sophie Scholl (Japanese)
This film bears witness to the courage of two young Germans, Hans and Sophie Scholl,
who because of their faith in Jesus Christ and at the cost of their lives, decided to resist
and denounce the totalitarian Nazi regime in Germany in the 1940's. So it was that
in the spring of 1942, together with their friend Alexander Schmorell, they set up The White Rose resistance group. Today, they are a symbol of German Resistance during the Second World War.
After some time as members of the Hitler Youth, they realised the impact that the Nazi regime was making on young people. Disgusted by Hitler's dictatorship and by the suffering caused by war, Hans and Sophie began to actively resist the Nazi regime. They came from a family of Protestant intellectuals and were avid readers of such authors as Aristotle, St. Augustine
and Goethe. They had the support of their father and were greatly encouraged by their philosophy teacher, Kurt Huber.
Thanks also to Karl Muth, a theology teacher, first Hans and then Sophie found a living faith in God and set out on a campaign of non-violent resistance. Despite the threat of retaliation from Hitler's forces, they produced leaflets for students and put up posters with slogans.
Hans, who was a medical student, was sent to the Eastern front as a nurse and this experience simply strengthened his resolve to combat the policy of the Third Reich. On his return,
The White Rose linked up with a national resistance network and the scope of their action widened as a thousand documents were clandestinely distributed from Munich to Vienna, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
They were arrested in January 1943 while distributing leaflets at the Munich University.
During their trial, Sophie's courage was unshakeable. She declared: We have only said
and written what many people are thinking. But they don't dare express themselves.
Hans Scholl also resisted to the end and said: In a little while, you will be standing where
we are standing today.
Hans and Sophie, and their friend Christopher Probst, were all three sentenced to death four days later.
Driven by the Spirit of Truth, which prevailed above all else in the face of violence and hate, Hans and Sophie remained faithful to their deepest convictions, and fought for human dignity in the name of Jesus Christ.
Ce film est réalisé par la Communauté du Chemin Neuf via le réseau international de prière « Net for God ».
Pour plus d'informations : netforgod.tv
Pour nous contacter : netforgod@chemin-neuf.org
Hitler's secretary on personal responsibility (genuine English subs)
A tolhurst production. This is not a parody but made for educational purposes. Traudl was secretary to Adolf Hitler 1943-45 and her eyewitness account of the last hours of the Third Reich in the Führerbunker in Berlin was one of the key pieces of background informing the film Downfall and hence all the parodies. In this interview, she talks about personal responsibility, mentioning specifically that she was born in the same year as Sophie Scholl who led The White Rose student anti-Nazi movement and who was executed in 1943 (the same year that Traudl went to work for Hitler) and that seeing this information inscribed on a memorial plaque in Munich made Traudl think about whether she could have done more to find reasons why she should not have worked for Hitler.
This is not a parody, but Traudl's real words complete with genuine, accurate English subtitles for educational purposes.
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Die Weiße Rose - www.pastfinder.de
White Rose Memorial / Weiße-Rose-Denkmal. Read more about it in the new PastFinderZIKZAK Munich / PastFinderZIKZAK München.