1. The White Rose group (active between 1942 and 1943) was an opposition movement of students and lecturers from Munich University. Among the leaders were brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl.
2. Some male members of the group had served in the army and had been horrified by the atrocities carried out by the German army, including the mass killing of Jews.
3. The group used non-violent methods to protest against Nazi discrimination against minorities - they wrote anti-Nazi graffiti and distributed anti-Nazi leaflets to encourage opposition. In 1943, the group organised the first public anti-Nazi demonstration.
At her trial, Sophie Scholl stated that everything she had written in the leaflets was also known by many others, but they didn't dare to say anything about it.
4. Many of the group were later arrested by the Gestapo. Several were tortured and executed, including Hans and Sophie Scholl.
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