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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Germany carries out a large air raid on London, but fails in it's attempts, signifying an important power shift in the war.
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Three million German troops are sent to invade Russia.
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The RUssian winter and counterattacks stop the Germans.
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The first four leaflets are written by Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell and distributed between June 27th and July 12th, 1942.
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In the late summer of 1942, several members of the groups were sent into the war as physician assistants in German Field Hospitals. Here they met future member, Willi Graf, and were exposed to the atrocities faced by Polish Jews and Russian peasants at the hand of the Germans.
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The Germans suffer a devestating loss in Stalingrad. Combined casualties are over a million soldiers (notincluding the wounded and civilian death toll).
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After the Germans lose a signifigant battle in Stalingrad, three members of the White Rose (Willi Graf, Hans Scholl, and Alexander Schmorell) begin a graffiti campaign with tar in the University of Munich.
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Hans and Sophia Scholl are observed by the janitor distributing leaflets at the University of Munich and arrested by the Gestapo.
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The trial and beheading of Hans Scholl, Sophia Scholl, and CHristopher Probst.
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The second trial for the members of the White Rose in which 14 members were tried. Of those tried, only three recieved a death sentence, WIlli Graf, Kurt Huber, and Alexander Schmorell. The rest were sent tovarios prison sentences.
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In the third trial, four members were tried for their involvement. Only one, Joseph Sohngen, was given a prison sentence, the other three were acquitted.
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Even after the court sentenced many members of the White Rose to death Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, a supporter, smuggled the final leaflet through Scandanavia into the United Kingdom. In July, 1943, Allied planes flew over Germany and dropped the final leaflet renamed "The Manifesto of the Students at Munich".
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Germans suffer the loss at Normandy.
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Hans Leipelt, a supporter of the White Rose, was convicted and sentenced to death for distibuting the final pamphlet in Hamburg and setting up a fund for Kurth Huber's widow.
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Nazi Germany surrenders to the Allied forces.
