The fall semester was soon to begin. Franz and Bernhard would have to patrol streets and campuses for prospective women from whom human organisms could be purchased. Many women already provided this product. One such woman was Tasha Dale.
She prostituted herself and sold her unborn children to Franz and Bernhard in order to meet educational expenses. She had no problem selling her children. The extravagant amount of money she was paid per human organism was effective in keeping ethical matters out of mind.
Tasha was a woman of exquisite beauty and charm, a veritable delightat least when she was in a good mood, which was most of the time, anyway. Franz was particularly fond of her. He feared being in love with her. During patrols of downtown Tucson, Arizona, he would sometimes run into her while she was with a customer. It caused him pain to see her with another man. This pain gave her pleasure.
Bernhard, Franzs best friend, would notice the dialogue of emotions between Tasha and Franz. Bernhard had to constantly remind him of who and what Tasha was. Tasha was not right for Franz. He had to forget her. She was a prostitute, a feminist, and a liberal. A relationship with her would only be trouble. Also, she was an American; he, a Whiteroser.
When a prospective provider of human organisms was found, there was the complicated matter of explaining who the Whiterosen were and what was done to, and with, the human organisms that were purchased. There was also the matter of convincing the chosen women that it was of extreme importance that they keep silent to the world in regard to the existence of the Whiterosen.
Some of the encountered women, especially history majors, had heard that the Whiterosen were Germans who fought the Nazis during World War II. The Whiterose battle consisted primarily in distributing flyers to the public, informing it of what the Nazis were doing to Jews. If those who distributed the flyers were caught, they were arrested, taken to trial, found guilty of treason, and executed. The whole process was normally carried out within a day, normally within just a few hours. It was not until recently, in Germany, that the murdered Whiterosen have being recognized as heroes. Most of these heroes were German college students. But this is only part of the story . . .
As early as the 1880s, the German government was conducting secret experiments in eugenics. Such experiments continued into the following century. For decades the experiments amounted to little because the experimenters could not agree wholly on what constituted a superior human being. Such qualities as physical strength and beauty were acknowledged as necessary requirements, but the matter and nature of intelligence was highly disputed among the relatively few experimenters.
In order to go beyond the impasse, the German government decided to have Germanys most illustrious university professors determine what constituted superior mental ability and attitude. One of the scholars chosen was Professor Dieter Weise, a prudent man. He agreed that the human race should be improved, but that it be done primarily through education and secondarily through sciencenever through controlled breeding.
He was also terrified that the most illustrious university professors were going to pick the women and men who would participate in the breeding program. According to Professor Weise, there was no greater concentration of vain fools to be found in the civilized world than among university professors of the timeespecially among the most illustrious. The danger in this was that for a vain fool, another vain fool was a superior human being. These professors therefore chose people who were vain fools for the breeding program, thinking that these were superior human beings. For the most part, children born out of this breeding program became the cruelest of Nazis.
But even before the beginning of the Nazi movement and even before the births of the breeding program children, Professor Weise knew that German vanity would destroy Germany and maybe several neighboring countries. German vanity had to be stopped. He knew of two other professors who saw matters his way, and he met with them for discussions.
The three professors later arranged a series of meetings with their wisest students and colleagues. A group of about a hundred people was organized. They philosophized on vanity and realized that it was because of it that professors and scientists engaged in pointless researchresearch that retarded the growth of progress. It was hypothesized that if vanity were removed from a society, then science and technology would develop perhaps unbelievably fast in that society.
It was felt that the hypothesis should be tried out. The group of wise students and professors was large enough to constitute a society. They wanted a name for their society, a name symbolizing both beauty and purity. They decided that a white rose would be their symbol. They therefore settled on calling themselves Whiterose.
In order to be anti-vanity, it was necessary to first determine and then understand the nature of vanity. The dictionarys definition of vanity was unsatisfactory. Something else was needed. Vanity obviously existed. It could somehow be perceived, since when an individual was vain, it was quite noticeable. After considerable debate, it was concluded that vanity is a state of mind consisting of a lack of awareness. Because of this lack of awareness, vain individuals pay unwarranted attention to the little that they are aware of, thus coming to conclusions based on partial information.
The best minds in Germany were part of Whiterose. Over many years, the new society grew to several thousand. When Hitler came to power, he sought to dissolve Whiterose. As a result, nearly all Whiterosen fled to the French high country. They were welcomed and financed by the French government.
In the time the Whiterosen spent in France before the German invasion, they made some significant advances in science and technology. Among their greatest accomplishments were . . .
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