White Rose Society?

Hi, my friends and I are working on a project about the "White Rose Society", and i have a few questions my friends and I cannot find. And if any of you know any of these answers, and you have gotten these facts from a book or website, please list the book or website. Thank you.





#1.Why was it called the WHITE ROSE?


#2.Why the WHITE rose?


#3.Why ROSE?


#4.Is there any website that has alot of information we need?


#5.Any book(s)?





Thank You.





Sincerely,





Ryan, ChaCha, and Adriy.

White Rose Society?
The group initially consisted of five students, all in their early twenties at Munich University.





The origins of the name are not clear but the historian Zeller wrote that the colour (white) represented pureness.





Between June 1942 and February 1943, they prepared and distributed six different leaflets (known as the leaves of the white rose) in which they called for an end to Nazi oppression and tyranny through active opposition of the German people.





Hans Scholl and his sister Sophie led the rest of the group, including Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf. They were joined by a professor, Kurt Huber, who drafted the final two leaflets. All six members of this group were arrested, tried, convicted and executed by beheading. A seventh leaflet was found in possession of the students at the time of their arrest by the Gestapo.





All the following can be referenced from:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose





The leaflets of the White Rose


The White Rose: Information, links, discussion, etc.


The legacy of the White Rose


Memories of the White Rose


Essay on the White Rose


The White Rose White Rose


Copies of the six flyers (in German):


Flyer I (Text / Original as PDF)


Flyer II (Text / Original as PDF)


Flyer III (Text / Original as PDF)


Flyer IV (Text / Original as PDF)


Flyer V (Text / Original as PDF)


Flyer VI (Text / Original as PDF)


British air-dropped leaflet The Manifesto of the Students of Munich


Sophie Scholl - The Final Days film website (in English)


Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage film website (in German)


The White Rose Society - student group at the University of Texas, based on the original White Rose