Editing White Rose (section)

=== Mentors and role models ===
[[File:CAvGalenBAMS200612.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Clemens August Graf von Galen]]]]

In 1941, Hans Scholl read a copy of a sermon by an outspoken critic of the Nazi regime, Catholic Bishop [[Clemens August Graf von Galen|August von Galen]], decrying the [[euthanasia]] policies expressed in [[Action T4]] (and extended that same year to the [[Nazi concentration camps]] by [[Action 14f13]])<ref>Lifton, Robert Jay (1986). ''The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide''. Basic Books. {{ISBN|978-0-465-04905-9}}. p. 135.</ref> which the Nazis maintained would protect the German gene pool.<ref name="The White Rose">[http://www.shoaheducation.com/whiterose.html The White Rose] {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20080206131523/http://www.shoaheducation.com/whiterose.html |date=6 February 2008 }} Shoah Education Project Web</ref> Horrified by the Nazi policies, Sophie obtained permission to reprint the sermon and distribute it at the University of Munich.<ref name="The White Rose" />

In 1940, [[Otl Aicher]] had met [[Carl Muth]], the founder of the Catholic magazine ''[[Hochland (magazine)|Hochland]]''. Otl in turn introduced Hans Scholl to Muth in 1941.<ref>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. 30.</ref> In his letters to Muth, Hans wrote about his growing attraction to the Catholic Christian faith.<ref>Scholl, Hans, and Sophia Scholl. ''At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl''. Ed. Inge Jens. Trans. Maxwell Brownjohn. New York: Harper & Row, 1987, p. 88.</ref> Both Hans and Sophie Scholl were influenced by Carl Muth whom they describe as deeply religious, and opposed to Nazism. He drew the Scholl siblings' attention to the persecution of the Jews, which he considered sinful and anti-Christian.<ref>Scholl, Hans, and Sophia Scholl. ''At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl''. Ed. Inge Jens. Trans. Maxwell Brownjohn. New York: Harper & Row, 1987, p. 87.</ref>

Both Sophie Scholl and Willi Graf attended some of Kurt Huber's lectures at the University of Munich. Kurt Huber was known amongst his students for the political innuendos which he used to include in his university lectures, by which he criticized Nazi ideology by talking about classical philosophers like [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]]. He met Hans Scholl for the first time in June 1942, was admitted to the activities of the White Rose on 17 December 1942,<ref>Anneliese Knoop-Graf, Inge Jens (ed.): ''Willi Graf – Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. – Letters and [diary] records''. Berlin, 1994, Fischer Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-596-12367-4}}, p. 88. {{in lang|de}}</ref> and became their mentor and the main author of the sixth pamphlet.