- Summary
- The White Rose (die Weisse Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in the early 1940s secretly wrote and distributed anti-Nazi pamphlets. At its heart were Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf and Professor Kurt Huber, all of whom were executed in 1943 by the Nazi regime. The youngest among them was just twenty-one years old. This book outlines the story of the group and sets their resistance texts within their political and historical context, including archival photographs. A series of brief biographical sketches, along with excerpts from their letters, trace each member's journey towards action against the National Socialist state. The White Rose resistance pamphlets are included in full, translated by students at the University of Oxford. These translations are the result of work by undergraduates around the same age as the original student authors, working together on texts, ideas and issues. This project reflects a crucial aspect of the White Rose: its collaborative nature. The resistance pamphlets were written collaboratively, and they could not have had the reach they did without being distributed by multiple individuals, defying Hitler through words and ideas. Today, the bravery of the White Rose lives on in film and literature and is commemorated not just in Munich but throughout Germany and beyond. --From publisher description.
- Other Title
- Works. Selections. English.
- Variant Title
- White Rose pamphlets
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Lloyd, Alexandra, 1984- author.
- Published
- Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2022
- Locale
- Germany
Munich
Allemagne
- Contents
-
White Rose: An Overview
Biographical Sketches
Pamphlets Of The White Rose
Pamphlets of the White Rose I
Pamphlets of the White Rose II
Pamphlets of the White Rose III
Pamphlets of the White Rose IV
Pamphlets of the Resistance Movement in Germany
Fellow students!
Draft pamphlet.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weisse Rose (Resistance group).
- Notes
-
Translated from the German.
"The Oxford students' translations of the pamphlets were first published in The White Rose: reading, writing, resistance, ed. by Alexandra Lloyd (Taylor Institution Library, Oxford, 2019)" -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
White Rose: An Overview -- Biographical Sketches -- Pamphlets Of The White Rose -- Pamphlets of the White Rose I -- Pamphlets of the White Rose II -- Pamphlets of the White Rose III -- Pamphlets of the White Rose IV -- Pamphlets of the Resistance Movement in Germany -- Fellow students! -- Draft pamphlet.
