14 Oct 2006 – At the Annual Aegis Student Summer Conference the Aegis Students adopted a White Rose logo as a symbol of commonality with the White Rose Movement; a small group of students at Munich University who defied the Nazi regime in the 1940s.
The White Rose Movement was organised at the height of the Nazi era by Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine and a group of college students, who mounted an underground resistance movement. Risking her life to distribute anti-Nazi leaflets on campus, Sophie Scholl and her brother were captured and executed for the stand they took against the Nazis during the Holocaust.
A film on the White Rose Movement was released in 2005 titled, ‘The White Rose Movement, ‘Sophie Scholl: The Final Days’. For more information on the Movement visit – www.jlrweb.com/whiterose.
