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On February 18th, 1942, the Gestapo rounded up the leaders of the White Rose resistance movement, four of them young students, and one a professor, at the University of Munich – Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. All had become disillusioned with the Nazi movement, and when they discovered its true evil, this turned to resistance. They did not take up arms – they simply wrote stirring pa…