It is not uncommon to find vestiges of the history of the Third Reich in Munich, a city that in its day was the great ideological bastion of the Nazi party. However, there is a modest monument that usually goes unnoticed by almost all tourists: that of White Rose (the White Rose).
The White Rose is the name of a group of rebellious students led by brothers Hans and Sophie Scholl, who practiced non-violent resistance to the Nazi regime and ended up being sentenced to death and executed in 1943. And it is worth remembering that the first victims of the Nazi terror were precisely the Germans themselves.
Most of the members of the White Rose were students at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, one of the oldest and most respected universities in Germany. Their actions consisted mainly of the distribution of anti-Nazi political pamphlets and street graffiti in Munich and other cities in southern Germany.
There are a number of monuments to the White Rose scattered throughout Munich, although the most emotional is embedded between the cobblestones of the ground in front of the building of this university, in the same place where the brothers were arrested. There you can see bronze replicas of the White Rose leaflets, which fell to the ground as the Gestapo arrested them.
The square where the memorial is located today bears the name of "Geschwister-Scholl-Platz" ("Scholl Brothers Square"). A bust of Sophie Scholl can also be found in the inner courtyard of the law school.