The White Rose consisted mainly of University of Munich students who covertly distributed leaflets around the country opposing the Nazi regime.
The last surviving member of the White Rose, an underground anti-Nazi resistance group during World War II, has been awarded the German Order of Merit.
“Our present"state" is the dictatorship of evil,” one such pamphlet declared. “Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks?”
After finishing her secret primary education in the late 1930s, Lafrenz went to Munich to study medicine, according to an interview with the German newspaper Bild. At the University of Munich, she met Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell, leaders of the nascent White Rose group. “I am just a contemporary witness,” she told Bild. “Given the fates of the others, I am not allowed to complain.”
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