"IIn my breast-pocket there is the bud of a rose. I need these little plant, because that's the other side, far away of all this soldiership and after all it's no contradiction to this attitude. You must always have a little secret in you, especially with such friends I have."
(Part of Hans Scholl, letters and records p. 18)
If this was the reason, why the resistance-group "The White Rose" got its name, will be unknown forever, because there is no information in all references.
