This small book of 155 pages reads very easily and should be in the hands of all students. By its testimonial density, it embodies the "duty of memory" very precisely, it focuses on persons belonging to a people that modern class in the category of unconscious executioners, pinpoints the reality of dictatorship thinking carried by the Hitler regime, and describes how a small group, its reflection and lucid courage helped tear this clay.
It seems to me that it is in the wonderful documentary Rossif "From Nuremberg to Nuremberg" that was quoted this sentence about the Resistance: "We are like bees who know they will die if they sting, but if they did not sting there would be more bees. "
So thank you to the white rose of having few thorns to maintain, alongside others, the flame of freedom in the heart of Germany.
In spring 1943, the white rose was decimated. Shortly before his last time seemed tract. An excerpt:
"Freedom and honor! For ten long years Hitler and his supporters hackneyed our ears of those two words, as only know how to do dilettantes who cast the pigs the highest values of a nation. What they mean With these words, they showed enough during those years when all material as well as intellectual freedom, all moral values were violated. The bloodshed they have spread in Europe on behalf of the German honor, opened the eyes even more foolish. The shame forever weigh on Germany if the youth does not finally to crush protests his executioners and build a new spiritual Europe. "
A few months earlier, in the first documents of the movement, this scathing phrase that sums up the very foundation of the resistance: "We can not talk of Nazism, nor oppose it by a process of the mind, because it n ' nothing of a spiritual doctrine. "
As indicated Hans and Sophie at the end of their leaflets asking to copy and distribute their documents, this little book is to distribute.
