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The single white rose represents:
Purity, Innocence, Humility
Simplicity, Secrecy, Silence, Reverence
Richard Hansen sums up the story of The White Rose:
In the vogue words of the time, the Scholls and their friends represented
the 'other' Germany,
the land of poets and thinkers, in contrast to
the Germany that was reverting to barbarism and trying to take the world
with it.
What they were and what they did would have been 'other'
in
any society at any time.
What they did transcended the easy division
of good-German/bad-German and lifted them above the nationalism of
time-bound events.
Their actions made them enduring symbols of the
struggle, universal and timeless,
for the freedom of the human spirit
wherever and whenever it is threatened.
Their words from the last pamphlet of the 'White Rose' live on today as an example of moral courage:
We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience.
The 'White Rose' will not leave you in peace.
Weisse
Rose /
White Rose
Society