Time and Connection: The White Rose Movement as Transgenerational Activist Pedagogy

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Abstract

In the middle of the Second World War, a student protest movement emerged out of Munich, Germany, called the White Rose Movement. This paper examines the material published by and about this resistance movement, in the form of six Leaflets, which were distributed across Germany, as well as primary source documents and historical accounts from those close to the movement. The objective of this paper is to outline the role of the activist as an educator-in-public, establishing the activists’ role in offering and emphasizing a transgenerational repertoire to make possible a less brutal future. In particular, we explore the role of the transgenerational charge in countering two competing, alternative modes for responding to “bad times”: the melancholic or the conformist.

Authors

• Timothy Martin, Simon Fraser University

• Jake Burdick, Purdue University