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Orff was a friend of Kurt Huber, one of the founders of the resistance movement Die Weiße Rose ( the White Rose ), who was condemned to death by the Volksgerichtshof and executed by the Nazis in 1943.
Orff by happenstance called at Huber's house on the day after his arrest.
Huber's distraught wife begged Orff to use his influence to help her husband, but Orff declined her request.
If his friendship with Huber came out, he told her, he would be " ruined ".
Huber's wife never saw Orff again.
Wracked by guilt, Orff would later write a letter to his late friend Huber, imploring him for forgiveness.
According to Canadian historian Michael H. Kater, Orff claimed at the end of the war to his Allied interrogators that he was a founding member of the White Rose and was released.
However, in Orff's denazification file, which has been discovered by Viennese historian Oliver Rathkolb in 1999, no remark on the White Rose is recorded.

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