For the purpose of this report, I have consulted various secondary resources and have found that they are, on most part, consistent with each other in recording details of the White Rose movement. All sources describe the views of opposing sides, that is, the Nazi party and members of the White Rose. Whilst Muchener Neuete Nachricten o

This investigation could be improved by referring to more primary sources. Admittedly on the course of my research, I have found a lack in primary resources, which directly refer to the White Rose movement. However, this may be because Hitler tightly controlled the propaganda at the time, and hence, disallowed the opposition’s opinion to be publicized.

One such party who dared to voice their opinions were a group of students from the University of Munich (the city that was later known as the home of Nazism), who banded together in 1942-1943 to form the ‘White Rose.’ Having chosen the name “White Rose” as a symbol of purity and innocence, it comprised of the core members Hans Scholl, his sister, Sophie Scholl (both from a Catholic upbringing), Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, Alexander Schmorell and the philosophy professor, Kurt Huber. Hans Scholl (having been previously a leader in the Hitler Youth) was amongst several others who had served in the army before and had been direct eyewitnesses of brutal atrocities, which perhaps was the reason for their involvement in “White Rose”. Their adopted strategy was based on passive resistance, that is, a non-violent method of social change that employed strategies such as the wide-spread distribution of leaflets, the painting of anti-Nazi slogans and inscriptions on the walls such as “The Spirit lives” and “Down with Hitler.”

Put into the words of Inge Scholl, a

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