White Rose: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date	1942 - 1943
Areas Of Involvement	civil disobedience • activism

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Side-by-side black and white portraits of Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie Scholl, both looking to the right.

Metal replicas of White Rose resistance group leaflets are embedded in a cobblestone pavement outside Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, arranged as if scattered on the ground.

A binder displaying a German court document is shown in the foreground, with black-and-white portraits of White Rose members Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst mounted on the wall behind.

White Rose resistance against Nazi dictatorship

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Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.

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