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Alexander Schmorell

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"… Is it not true that every honest German today is ashamed of his government? And who among us can even guess the extent …? … If the Germans, without any remaining individuality, have indeed become a heartless and cowardly mob, yes, then they deserve to perish… Goethe talks about the Germans as a tragic people, like the Jews and Greeks, but today it seems that the Germans are a shallow, mindless herd of followers (Mitläufern) whose marrow has been sucked out and who, bereft of their core, allow themselves to be led into their extinction. It seems so, but it is not so; instead, each individual–after slow, insidious, and systematic rape–has been put into a moral prison, and only once he was captive did he become aware of his dilemma. Few understood the the menace, and their reward was death…. Each individual, as a member of Christian and Western civilization, must therefore rise up in this final hour and resist, as much as he can, against this scourge on humanity, against Fascism and every system like it. Resist passively, resist, resist wherever you are … Never forget that each people gets the government it deserves… … the fact that, since the conquest of Poland, three-hundred-thousand Jews have been murdered in a bestial way. Here we see the most dreadful crime against the dignity of man, a crime that compares to no other in the entire history of mankind… … Nobody can pretend he was not guilty. Everyone is guilty, guilty, guilty! But it is not yet too late to wipe this ugliest monstrosity of a government off the face of the earth, in order not to become even more guilty…. .. the only and highest duty, indeed the holiest duty, of each German is to eradicate these [Nazi] beasts…. … The foremost concern of every German must not be the military victory over Bolshevism but the defeat of the National Socialists …." -excerpts from the famed pamphlets of the "White Rose." -assisting author, Alexander Schmorell, (Combat Medic, Eastern Front) executed by guillotine, July 1943.