White Rose greeting cards

When you have decided, act! - Christoph Probst.

Jun 25, 2025

White Rose greeting cards. The copyright notice does NOT appear on the face of the printed cards.

We’re venturing into new territory for us: “Merch” related to informed dissent and White Rose resistance.

Specifically, we’ve released our first line of greeting cards, featuring desert roses and quotes from the White Rose circle of friends. If demand is strong, we will do more card sets featuring non-flower photography.

Card #1: Sophie Scholl. Whenever I saw an opportune moment, I took it (with pink desert rose). Inside (top) of card reads:

Of all those who participated in White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl likely took their work the most seriously. She would grow impatient if they gossiped instead of worked. She disliked evenings when socializing dominated their agenda. Like Traute Lafrenz, Sophie would steer conversations back to what mattered.

As they undertook their “scattering” operation, Sophie was in her element. This wasn’t limited to after-midnight runs like the graffiti operations. Nor did they labor tirelessly over typewriters and duplicating machines.

No, the scattering operation was any time of day or night. Sophie could take a handful of leaflets with her wherever she went. Broad daylight after class at the university, twilight near the Bodega, or late-night walks in the English Gardens – any time and any place was good if she was certain she was not being observed.

Sophie would later say she put flyers in telephone booths, parked autos, and the like. “I always made it a point to carry several extra copies of the leaflets with me whenever I was walking through the city – specifically for that purpose. Whenever I saw an opportune moment, I took it.

Card #2, Christoph Probst. When you have decided, act! (with yellow desert rose). Inside (top) of card reads:

Christoph Probst penned the words to the (unpublished) seventh leaflet after listening to President Roosevelt’s “Casablanca” speech. Once he internalized Roosevelt’s words, he knew he could no longer keep silent.

His half-brother Dieter Sasse would say, “Every attempt to pigeonhole his motives into this category or the other, be it purely Christian or purely political, is not correct. One must rather view it as a whole. Christl acted out of a moral-ethical sense of duty.”

Christl’s words to Bernhard Knoop — teacher, friend, and brother-in-law — went further.

“Just once, that which is human must be exalted. Then one day, the breakthrough will come. We must risk this ‘No’ against a power that not only wishes to eradicate everyone who thinks differently, but that increasingly places itself above that which is at the core and the holiest of the individual. We must do this for the sake of life. No one can take this responsibility from us. National Socialism is the name of an evil, intellectual illness that has befallen our nation. We may not watch and keep silent as our nation is slowly subverted.”

Card #3, Eugen Grimminger. Women in general were far more courageous antifascists than men (with variegated desert rose). Inside (top) of card reads:

Eugen Grimminger financed White Rose operations — with money, paper, envelopes, duplicating machines, and exchange of ideas. When he and Tilly Hahn attempted to raise money from their supposedly anti-Nazi friends to support White Rose work, only women gave. Frau Stempa, whose husband had been murdered at Dachau. The fun-loving movie theater owner, Frau Wagner. Sophie Schreiner. And of course, Tilly.

Together with Eugen Grimminger, these ‘antifascists’ raised around RM 5000, or $40,000 in today’s currency.

Without them, there would have been no White Rose.

When I started this project in mid-May, the pricing in our online store was $32.50 for a package of six (two of each design). By the time I placed the order this week, my pricing was all out of whack due to tariffs. Paper, ink, coating: Everything now costs much, much more.

The new pricing of $54/package of six was possible only because I took my labor out of our pricing equation.

If we’re ever not involved in a trade war, and should print costs go back down to relatively normal levels, our price for re-orders will also go down.

Printed on 12-point, 100# matte cover stock, with matte laminate on front of card. No coating on inside of card to make it easier to write your message. Comes with envelopes.

You can order here: White Rose greeting cards, roses. Blank. Pack of six with three designs. Ships July 8.

If you order these cards, I would sincerely appreciate your feedback!

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