White
Rose
Memorial
In front of the LMU main building on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, bronze pavement markers depicting scattered leaflets commemorate the student resistance group White Rose. Inside the LMU main building is the DenkStätte Weiße Rose memorial.
The act
On the morning of 18 February 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl distributed the sixth leaflet of the White Rose at LMU — a student resistance group around the Scholl siblings, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf and their mentor, the psychology professor Kurt Huber. Sophie pushed a last bundle of leaflets from the light court balustrade into the inner courtyard. The porter Jakob Schmid noticed them, held them and alerted the Gestapo. Arrest, four days of show trial under Roland Freisler, 22 February 1943: execution at Stadelheim prison. Three further members were sentenced to death afterwards.
The remembrance
The square in front of the LMU main building has been called Geschwister-Scholl-Platz since 1946. Pavement markers reproduce the scattered leaflet pages — bronze facsimiles impossible to overlook. Inside the LMU main building the DenkStätte Weiße Rose in the light court has commemorated the group permanently since 1997 (free admission, Mon–Fri).
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