We would like to laud Bradford Christian Academy and the staff and students for bringing the story of the White Rose movement to a greater audience. I was involved last year in bringing a traveling exhibit about The White Rose to various schools and colleges around New England, and we found that the story resonated with so many people – especially young people of today. We realized that this story was relatively unknown to the American public, so you are doing a great service in presenting this story of courage in facing the totalitarian regime of the Nazi era.

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Germany is committed to a culture of remembrance, and honesty is essential for true and lasting remembrance. Germans, perhaps more than anyone, must remember the past and speak frankly about the political and moral failures that led to the Shoah and to the tragic ends of the young people involved in the White Rose. Germany has a responsibility, and one that it takes very seriously, to incorporate lessons of the past into the future. We talk about “Zivilcourage” – the civil courage to stand up against anti-Semitism, extremism and xenophobia which are each an attack on democracy and on the diversity of our society.

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Elizabeth von Wagner

Cultural and Press Affairs

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany

Three Copley Place, Suite 500

Boston, MA 02116