Editing White Rose (section)

=== Social background ===
The members of the core group all shared an academic background as students at Munich University. The Scholl siblings, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf and Alexander Schmorell were all raised by independently thinking and wealthy parents. Alexander Schmorell was born in Russia, and his first language was Russian. After he and Hans Scholl had become friends at the university, Alexander invited Hans to his parents' home, where Hans also met Christoph Probst at the beginning of 1941. [[Alexander Schmorell]] and [[Christoph Probst]] had already been friends since their school days. As Christoph's father had been divorced and had married again to a Jewish wife, the effects of the Nazi [[Nuremberg Laws]], and Nazi racial ideology had impacts on both Christoph's and Alexander's lives from early on.<ref name="Scholl">Inge Scholl: ''The White Rose: Munich, 1942–1943''. 2nd ed., originally published as "Students Against Tyranny". Transl. from the German Edition by Arthur R. Schulz. {{ISBN|978-0-8195-6086-5}}, p. 6</ref>