The White Rose Movement: Conscience in Silent Nazi Germany
The morality of every person dictates the innate wrongness of genocide, and yet the world stood by as the Nazis sent millions to the gas chambers during the Holocaust.
Historians and social scientists often attribute this moral failure to the blissfully feigned ignorance of the German people, enveloped in a blanket of fear propagated by the Nazi regime, and the indifference and prejudice of other nations.
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Total inaction was a remarkable failure of the human conscience, but a few brave college students in Munich proved to the world that conscientiousness still existed in the Fatherland.
It is for their willingness to die to end the silence that The White Rose has become legendary.
Dissent was not what made this group extraordinary; thousands of Germans, crippled with fear by Nazi propaganda, felt just as they did.
What set the members of The White Rose apart was their unwillingness to remain silent and their selfless decision to act on their intuitions.
DO NOT BE CRIPPLED BY THE FEAR AND PROPAGANDA FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION - THEY, IN FACT, SHOULD FEAR US 'WE, THE PEOPLE'...........
It is for their willingness to die to end the silence that The White Rose has become legendary.
Dissent was not what made this group extraordinary; thousands of Germans, crippled with fear by Nazi propaganda, felt just as they did.
What set the members of The White Rose apart was their unwillingness to remain silent and their selfless decision to act on their intuitions.
DO NOT BE CRIPPLED BY THE FEAR AND PROPAGANDA FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION - THEY, IN FACT, SHOULD FEAR US 'WE, THE PEOPLE'...........
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