White Rose. Student resistance movement against Hitler in Munich 1942/1943

The exhibition is devoted to the anti-Nazi student organization “White Rose” founded in Munich in 1942.

The “White Rose” movement was founded by Chrisoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl with the support of Professor Kurt Hubert, a lecturer at the University of Munich. Over time, it has evolved into a wider circle of friends who set themselves the goal of overthrowing the Nazi regime by peaceful means.

The organization was primarily involved in the preparation of leaflets that called for resistance against the Nazi system. They were distributed in many German cities, including Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart and Ulm.

Schmorell, Scholl and Graf painted the slogans “Freedom” and “Down with Hitler” on the walls of the university and other buildings in Munich several times. The activity of the organization became an important historical testimony of the existence of German opposition to Nazism. The organization’s activities were terminated by a trial before the German People’s Court (Volksgerichtshof) conducted by the Nazi judge Roland Freisler, where the members of the White Rose were sentenced to death.

The exhibition was created within the framework of the project “Wipe off the coat of indifference” as part of the program of the Polish-German Year 2005/2006. The honorary patronage was held by Prof. Jutta Limbach and Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski.