Some have resisted evil: “Somebody, after all, had to make a start."- Sophie Scholl, to the Nazi court, as to why the White Rose resisted evil and published leaflets asking others to resist this manifest evil.

In reaction to the by the organized violent menace of Germany's National Socialist Party, a.k.a. Nazi Party, a group of brave young Germans began secretly meeting  to organize resistance against the fascist government that was destroying Europe, and the German homeland itself.
Beginning in 1942, six informative and inspiring leaflets signed by "The White Rose" were written, printed, and distributed. Readers were asked to engage in acts of passive resistance against the Nazi horrors.
In 1943, the Nazi judicial system executed members of the White Rose for distributing those six leaflets.

Sophie Scholl remarked to the Nazi trial judge: “Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare to express themselves as we did.”

Memorial to the White Rose in the spot where some of the leaflets dropped at Munich University

For more on the White Rose: White Rose

I cultivate a white rose
In July as in January
For the sincere friend
Who gives me his hand frankly.

And for the cruel person who tears out
the heart with which I live,
I cultivate neither nettles nor thorns:
I cultivate a white rose.

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