Hans Scholl (22 September 1918-22 February 1943) was a member of the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Hans was born in Ingersheim, a district of Crailsheim. He, along with his sister, Sophie, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, and Professor Kurt Huber, wrote and distributed six leaflets denouncing Nazi actions in Europe and calling on the German people to resist what their government was doing.

Kurt Huber (October 24, 1893-July 13, 1943) was a member of the White Rose group, which carried out resistance against Nazi Germany. Huber was born in Chur, Switzerland, to German parents. He grew up in Stuttgart and, later (after his father's death), in Munich. He showed an aptitude for such subjects as music, philosophy and psychology, and became a professor in 1920.

Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 - 9 April 1945) was a German opponent of Nazism. He is best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939.

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Count von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 - 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.

Stefan Paweł Rowecki was a Polish general, journalist and the leader of the Armia Krajowa.

Paul Rosbaud (November 18, 1896-January 28, 1963), was a chemist and scientific adviser for Springer Verlag in Germany and during World War II a secret agent for British Intelligence MI6, code named "Griffin". He was born in Graz, Austria, and died in London, UK. Rosbaud had wide contacts within Germany and provided MI6 with vital information regarding weapon systems. Rosbaud served in the Austrian army during World War I from 1915 to 1918.

Helmuth Hübener. On 11 August 1942, Hübener's case was tried at the "Volksgerichtshof" in Berlin, and on 27 October, at the age of 17, he was beheaded at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin. His two friends, Schnibbe and Wobbe, who had also been arrested, were given lengthy prison sentences of 5 and 10 years respectively. As it says in the proclamation (at right), …

Henri Reynders (Dom Bruno) was a Belgian priest credited with saving 400 Jews during the Holocaust.

Baron Arthur Haulot (Angleur near Liège, November 15, 1913 - May 24, 2005) was a Belgian journalist, humanist and poet who served, during World War II as an active member of the military resistance against German foreign occupation also known in Western Europe as "the Resistance". As president of the "Jeunes Socialistes" (young socialists), he was made prisoner and taken to the concentration camp of Dachau.

Maurice Bavaud attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1938. He travelled to Germany on 9 October 1938, staying in Munich and Berchtesgaden, following the whereabouts of Hitler in the news. He intended to shoot Hitler on 9 November (the day followed by the "Kristallnacht") at a memorial march in Munich, posing as an enthusiastic Nazi supporter visiting from Switzerland to see Hitler in order to get a good place.

Dagmar Mohne Hansen Lahlum, the daughter of a shoe maker. She was in the Norwegian resistance in Oslo during World War II and later recruited unofficially to work for MI5. Lahlum had moved to what she saw as the bright lights of Oslo when she was 17, shortly before the start of the war. Initially she worked as a receptionist in a city centre hotel and later took modelling classes.

Eduard Schulte was a prominent German industrialist was one of the first to warn the Allies and tell the world of the Holocaust and systematic exterminations of Jews in Nazi Germany occupied Europe. Already in 1916, during World War I, Schulte led the department for soap production within the War Ministery. Due to his career as a manager in the 1920s to 1940s, he had frequent contact with high German government and military officials, …