Weisse Rose Ausstellung

The exhibition displays the individuals and activities of the White Rose, a student resistance group against the dictatorship of Nazi Germany. This group actively fought against the oppression of civil liberties and the persecution of Jews, and demanded an end to the war. After being uncovered, the core members, six young students and one professor, were executed by the NS terror regime; others were jailed with long term prison sentences. The resistance group produced and distributed a total of six leaflets calling for resistance against the regime. Helmuth von Moltke smuggled the sixth leaflet to Scandinavia and further to the UK in 1943. Millions of copies of these were dropped over Germany by the Royal Air Force until the end of the war.

Upcoming Presentations

January 2. - February 24. 2012, German American Heritage Center
712 West Second Street, Davenport, Iowa 52802-1410
Contact: Janet Brown-Lowe, Board Member (frauster@att.net)

March 19. - 30. 2012, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
400 E. Second St., Bloomsburg PA 17815-1301
Contact: Luke Springman, Chair, Department of Languages and Cultures (lspringm@bloomu.edu)

April 16. - 27. 2012, Downingtown High School
West Campus, 445 Manor Avenue, Downingtown, PA 19335
Contact: Cornelia Haselberger, German Teacher (chaselberger@dasd.org