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'''The White Rose''' ([[German language|German]]: ''die Weiße Rose'') was a non-violent [[Widerstand|resistance]] group in [[Nazi Germany]], consisting of a number of students from the [[Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich|University of Munich]] and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to German dictator [[Adolf Hitler]]'s regime. <ref>[http://www.jlrweb.com/whiterose/leaflets.html The leaflets of the White Rose]</ref>
The six core members of the group were arrested by the [[Gestapo]], convicted and [[capital punishment|executed]] by [[beheading]] in 1943. The text of their sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany through Scandinavia to England, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] planes, retitled "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich." <ref>[http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=1943G039 "G.39, Ein deutsches Flugblatt"], Aerial Propaganda Leaflet Database, Second World War, ''Psywar.org''.</ref>
Today, the members of the White Rose are honored in Germany as great heroes who opposed the Third Reich in the face of deadly danger for such resistance.
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