Courage in the Face of Death - The White Rose & Sophie Scholl Story: 'The imperialist ideology of force, from whatever side it comes, must be shattered for all time.'-from 'Leaflet of Resistance' from The White Rose. The White Rose was a resistance group of college students in Germany who boldly exposed the hatred of Nazi ideology and addressed the evils of the mistreatment of and the extermination of the Jews under Hitler. Reading the text of the pamphlets these young adults produced and distributed, I find myself touched by not only their courageous devotion to writing the truth at a time when doing so would mean one's death, but deeply impressed with the prose itself. It powerfully states precisely what was going on in the midst of all who chose to ignore what was all around them, identifying all who apathetically accepted Hitler's crimes as being guilty, too, as they acquiesced rather than opposed it.
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