About white rose movement

I rad a tweet of a renowned politician as to how the intellectual who did not agree with Nazi Germany survived those fateful years.

There came a reply from someone about the white rose movement.

And I went straight to google search about it and got a good deal of information. 

So, there actually is a Center for white rose studies.

Now, that I haven't told about the white rose movement, it was a student led intellectual resistance to the then Nazi Germany.

The student group which were led by students from the Medical College from the University of Munich. 

They published leaflets with references from literary stalwarts like Goethe etc.

A portion from the leaflet is given below:

Nothing is more shameful to a civilized nation than to allow itself to be “governed” by an irresponsible clique of sovereigns who have given themselves over to dark urges – and that without resisting. Isn’t it true that every honest German is ashamed of his government these days? Who among us can imagine the degree of shame that will come upon us and upon our children when the veil falls from our faces and the awful crimes that infinitely exceed any human measure are exposed to the light of day? If the German nation is so corrupt and decadent in its innermost being that it is willing to surrender the greatest possession a man can own, a possession that elevates mankind above all other creatures, namely free will – if it is willing to surrender this without so much as raising a hand, rashly trusting a questionable lawful order of history; if it surrenders the freedom of mankind to intrude upon the wheel of history and subjugate it to his own rational decision; if Germans are so devoid of individuality that they have become an unthinking and cowardly mob – then, yes then they deserve their destruction.

Source: http://white-rose-studies.org/Leaflet_1.html