WRITTEN ON May 31st, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Political engagement

From the 1943 Bavarian White Rose movement (leaflet #3):

…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 mechanised state system presided over by criminals and drunkards?

The full two-page text is here (in German). Things were, of course, pretty far from Ideal at that stage, and the only Wibbi they could come up with was passive resistance. I hadn’t realised about the Scholls being contempory German heroes. Amazing what you learn helping with revision for exams…