Hans Scholl's The White Rose

Scholl: A great name, because it testifies the unprecedented courage in a dark chapter of our history: The siblings Scholl did not belong to the silent, tolerant majority of Germans in the so-called Dritte Reich, but offered a non-violent resistance called The White Rose by making together with friends and allies a total of six leaflets widespread. They were executed for their active peaceful resistance to the National Socialist regime.
Hans Scholl, born on September 22, 1918, and Sophie Scholl, born on May 9, 1921, grew up with their siblings Inge, Elisabeth, and Werner in Ludwigsburg and Ulm. Her parents Magdalena and Robert Scholl raised their children to Christian-humanistic values. Robert Scholl was a liberal and from the outset critical of the Hitler regime. After the war he became Lord Mayor of Ulm. In 1933 and 1934 Hans was in the Hitler Youth and Sophie in the Bund

I'm never free for a moment, day or night, from the depressing and unremitting state of uncertainty in which we live these days, which precludes any carefree plans for the morrow and casts a shadow over all the days to come. When will we finally be relieved of the compulsion to focus all our energy and attention on things that aren't worth lifting one's little finger for? Every word has to be examined from every angle before it's uttered, to see if it carries a hint of ambiguity. Faith in other people has been forcibly ousted by mistrust and caution. It's exhausting -- disheartening too, sometimes.

The letters another writing by Hans and Sophie Scholl have therefore been selected for their mode of expression and also for their content: for the "how" as well as the "what". Their sister Inge kept all the letters and they were published in the book: At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans an Sophie Scholl. The tireless work of their sister Inge after the war and their youth have made them powerful symbols of principled