“We are your bad conscience.”
It was 1943 in Nazi Germany, and the words were everywhere at the University of Munich. They were in dorms, in hallways, in classrooms, found on the closely written pages of resistance pamphlets.
There were six pamphlets from the summer of 1942 to early 1943, and they sought to reawaken the consciences of Germans.
They were written by students and a professor from the University of Munich: Kurt Huber, Willi Graf, Christopher Probst, Alexander Schomorell, and Hans and Sophie Scholl. Nobody knows where they got the name, but they called themselves the “White Rose.”
The letters appealed to scripture and the Western Heritage, citing authors like Aristotle, Goethe, and John Henry Newman. They argued that the German people were complicit in the crimes of the Nazis unless they undertook their moral obligation to undermine the regime.
