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What is the White Rose Resistance?

“Among the lesser known heroes from Nazi Germany, the White Rose Resistance was a small collective of Christian students who secretly wrote, printed, and distributed literature all around Germany, criticizing the Nazis and inspiring many others to resist them. At a mere 21 years old, with dreams of becoming a teacher, Sophie joined the Resistance. She didn’t believe this was a brave or exceptional act. It was simply Christianity lived out, or, as Sophie put it, “We are Christian and we are German. Therefore, we are responsible for Germany.”

On February 18th, 1943, during class time, Sophie and her brother walked the halls at the University of Munich, placing hundreds of their illegal leaflets in the open. Just before the bell rang, Sophie shoved an entire stack of leaflets from the third-floor balcony down to the atrium below.

Unfortunately, the janitor caught her in the act and Sophie and her brother were arrested and sentenced to death by guillotine. Due to their untimely arrest, Sophie and Hans would miss a meeting they had scheduled that next week for purposes of growing Christian resistance against the Third Reich. That meeting was with Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Sophie’s courage and calm disturbed even her captors, who were so moved that they relaxed the rules to allow Hans and Sophie to meet with their parents one last time before their execution. “Remember Jesus, Sophie,” were her mother’s final words to her doomed daughter. “Yes, but you too, Mama,” Sophie replied.

On the eve of her beheading, February 22, 1943, Sophie spoke some of her final words and as the blade prepared to fall, Sophie said, “The sun still shines!”“