White Rose Zine links

Thought my website would be about history as well as art and fan culture? Well, it is. This is the links page to go with my White Rose zine, because ... well, why not encourage learning and personal agency?

I always recommend that people read, and read widely. The 900s section in a library's nonfiction section (it's the numbers on the spines, the decimals after it are subcategories) usually has a fair-sized section about World War II. If you want to understand this history, or want to find works at a different scope than textbook summaries, or feel that your education was inadequate, then books are a way to go. Wikipedia is great, Youtube educators can be very useful, and details and stories are often conveyed effectively in print.

Naturally, societies such as this burned a lot of books, and wanted to control what could be broadcast. This itself is why I value knowledge. Self-determination and freedom depend, first, on knowledge.

If you read WHITE ROSE, and you'd like to read more about the society that was willing to do this:

The leaflets: in English and in German

A bio for Sophie

Examples of government action: here, here, and here. (That first one has a lot of information among several pages--it's a valuable history primer, if you never learned much about situations like this in school).

How education and group activities became a tool of the state.