Aegis Students is inspired by the White Rose movement, a student resistance group in Nazi Germany, which became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign that called for active opposition to German dictator, Adolf Hitler’s regime.
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Its six core members, including Hans and Sophie Scholl, were arrested by the Gestapo and executed in 1943. The content of their sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany, |
through Scandinavia, to England, and in July 1943 copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, re-titled “The Manifesto of the Students of Munich.”
Aegis Students honours the members of the White Rose by adopting the white rose as our symbol. We are inspired by their courage and heroism and we wish to emulate their challenge of society’s values of indifference to discrimination and genocide, whether at home or across the world.
“We will not be silent…The White Rose will not leave you in peace!”
- Fourth White Rose Leaflet, 1942
