The White Rose: Third Leaflet

The third leaflet was written in 1942 by Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell. They were core members of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance campaign organized by students at the University of Munich.

The leaflet called for passive resistance against the Nazi regime, specifically urging German citizens to sabotage the war effort. It argued that the German people had a moral obligation to overthrow the destructive government.

The group secretly mailed the leaflets to random addresses and left stacks of them in telephone booths and university courtyards. This clandestine method was necessary to avoid capture by the Gestapo.

The White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group founded by students at the University of Munich in 1942. They opposed the tyranny of Hitler's regime through the anonymous distribution of philosophical and political leaflets.