Archival evidence offers clues on the radicalization of the German siblings, who led a resistance movement known as the White Rose Jud Newborn | Co-author, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Sophie ...

Their crime was solely to have written anti-Nazi manifestoes and the price they paid was death. The group was executed by Hitler’s state on February 22, 1942. In the following weeks and months, ...

Davenport- Beginning Sunday, January 8, 2012, the German American Heritage Center, 712 West Second Street, Davenport will be featuring the exhibit "The White Rose." The exhibit explores one of Germany ...

When German university student Traute Lafrenz met a young man named Alexander Schmorell during an afternoon bike ride in Switzerland in the summer of 1939, she had little reason to anticipate the role ...

For three weeks in April 2025, my “Theology of Christian Martyrdom” class studied how a group of German students and professors from Munich and Hamburg formed a resistance movement from 1942 to 1943 ...

In 1943 at the University of Munich, siblings Sophie (Collette Guitart) and Hans Scholl (Tobias Turley) write and distribute anti-Nazi leaflets with their friends and their professor, urging their ...