Excerpt from the White Rose’s Fifth Leaflet1

With mathematical certainty, Hitler is leading the

German nation to disaster. Hitler cannot win the war,
he can only prolong it! His guilt and the guilt of his
assistants have infinitely exceeded all measure. A
just punishment grows ever closer!

And what is the German nation doing? It sees nothing,

it hears nothing. It is blindly following its seducers
to destruction. Victory at any price; that is what
they have written on their flags. I will fight to the
last man, says Hitler, but yet the war is already
lost.

Germans! Do you and your children wish to suffer the

same fate as the Jews? Do you wish to be measured with
the same measure as your seducers? Shall we forever be
the most hated and rejected nation in all the world?
No! Therefore, separate yourselves from the Na-tional
Socialist subhumanity! Prove with your deeds that you
think differently!
 Excerpt from the White Rose’s
Sixth Leaflet
The day of reckoning has come, the
reckoning of our German youth with
the most abominable tyranny that
our nation has ever endured. In
the name of all the German youth,
we demand that Adolf Hitler’s
government return to us our
personal freedom, the most
valuable possession a German owns.
He has cheated us of it in a most
contemptible manner.
 Excerpt from the White Rose’s Second
Leaflet
Since Poland was conquered, three hundred
thousand Jews have been murdered in that
country in the most bestial manner
imaginable. In this we see a terrible
crime against the dignity of mankind, a
crime that cannot be compared with any
other in the history of mankind.

Jews are human beings too – it makes no

difference what your opinion is regarding
the Jewish question – and these crimes
are being committed against human beings.
Perhaps someone will say, the Jews deserve
this fate. Saying this is in itself a
colossal effrontery.
 Excerpt from the White
Rose’s Fourth Leaflet
We will not keep silent. We
are your guilty conscience.
The White Rose will not let
you alone!