Photo: DPAWednesday marks 74 years since three members of the White Rose resistance group were executed by the Nazis. What would you do to get rid of this elected government?” said Wittenstein, a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi student group at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University. But the White Rose, founded by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, did have ideas. Another, Hans Conrad Leipelt, was executed in 1945 for distributing copied White Rose leaflets in Hamburg. Despite the limited effect they had on the country engulfed in Nazism, the White Rose movement is widely celebrated around the world for their resistance to Hitler.

Source: The Local February 22, 2017 15:00 UTC