It was 75 years ago that the anti-Nazi White Rose students were killed.

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.thelocal.de/20180222/feb-22nd-the-day-the-white-rose-were-killed-for-resisting-hitler

"Now I want you all to think. What would you do to get rid of this elected government?” said Wittenstein, a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi student group at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University.

There was very little you could do, Wittenstein emphasized - the Nazis controlled all aspects of society to the extent that sons would denounce their fathers, condemning them to a concentration camp.

But the White Rose, founded by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, did have ideas.

They formed the group to try to undermine the Nazi party, but particularly the hold it had over Germany's universities. It was a secret organisation of students at the University of Munich, that committed to writing, printing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets around the campus. On occasion they also wrote graffiti on city buildings saying “Freedom!” and “Down with Hitler!”

They were guillotined.

[CTyankee]

1. sad, but inspiring column in today's NYT...

[johnp3907]

2. I was just thinking of them at work today.

I meant to look them up online when I got home. Thanks for the reminder!

[mitch96]

3. I never heard of the White Rose group

And I thought I knew a lot about WW2.. The only opposition I knew about was the attempt to kill Hitler with a bomb. Apparently there were several other failed attempts. I have to look this one up.. Thanks for the info...
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[sinkingfeeling]

4. Please do. Another group of heroic young people who fought fascism.

[struggle4progress]

5. Helmuth Hubener

Another German anti-nazi resistance group