White Rose

As usual, I've been researching and note-taking across the globe, gazing in at people, places and events through my little window. I'm not sure how a research into the Tower of Babel brought me to the White Rose Leaflets, dispersed by freedom loving students at the university of Munich.

And as Sophie Scholl let one of the leaflets drop from a balcony, like a fall leaf to the floor, unbeknownst to her, a sweeper of lies, a gatherer of refuse saw. Not long after, she and her brother, Hans, along with their fellow student Christoph Probst were guillotined by their Nazi countrymen.

"Nothing is unworthy of a civilized nation allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct" White Rose leaflet 1

"it is high time to root out this brown horde" White Rose leaflet 2

"for every new day that you hesitate, failing to oppose this offspring of Hell, your guilt, as in a parabolic curve, grows higher and higher" White Rose leaflet 3

"'and further, it is part [of the nature of tyranny] to strive to see to it that nothing is kept hidden of that which any subject says or does, but that everywhere he will be spied upon,....and further, to set man against man and friend against friend, and common people against the privileged and the wealthy. Also it is part of these tyrannical measures to keep the subjects poor, in order to pay the guards and the soldiers, and so that they will be occupied with earning their livelihood and with neither leisure nor opportunity to engage in conspirational acts...Further, [to levy] such taxes on income as were imposed in Syracuse, for under Dionysius the citizens gladly paid out their whole fortunes in taxes withing five years. Also, the tyrant is inclined constantly to foment wars'"Aristotle qtd. in White Rose leaflet

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace!" White Rose leaflet 4