White Rose Group

Sophie and the White Rose group first started out as the role of the instigator, trying to reach the highest position that they could at the time. Sophie was a high role in the Nazi girls’ section, whereas Hans was a high role in the Nazi boys’ section. However, the actions that they had to do mad them realize that everything they were doing wasn’t really what they had wanted to be doing to begin with. When they opened their eyes to see what was actually happening, they ditched the Nazi regime and started handing out pamphlets and leaflets, trying to get others to see the truth behind the cold, cruel words coming from Hitler’s mouth. He was taking away everybody’s freedoms; religion, speech, press, and individuality as a whole. The White Rose group was formed in order to protest against his beliefs and start a rebellion - they wanted to prove that he wasn’t as great as everyone thought he really was. Sophie and Hans got involved when they started seeing their freedoms and rights being taken away. Nobody could
I feel this way because the Danes were actually trying to save the lives of everybody that was scheduled to be taken into custody (and potentially killed), whereas the White Rose was just trying to make sure that everybody understood what a monster Hitler truly was. Both groups ha large impacts, but the Danes were impacting life by saving it and the White Rose was impacting society by opening everybody’s eyes to show them that Hitler was killing hundreds to thousands of innocent people without having any reasoning other than, “They aren’t what we need for our perfect, pure, Aryan race.” However, both groups did end up saving hundreds of lives in the outcome of the war, the White Rose just had the greater impact on society when it was still a strongly formed community and