Willi leaves for Bonn

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Willi Graf . Bonn

I left Munich either January 20 or 21, 1943 at 11 pm – I do not remember exactly which day it was.

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Source: Sixth interrogation of Willi Graf, March 1, 1943

White Rose accounting

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Sophie Scholl . accounting, envelopes, expenditures, income, notebook, paper, postage stamps

Question: A notebook [Note 1] was found in your apartment. It contained a larger number of addresses and other notes. What would you like to say in this regard? Continue reading →

Alexander Schmorell re production of fifth leaflet

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Willi Graf . addresses, Deutsches Museum, envelopes, German Museum, Leaflet 5, Linz, paper, postage stamps, Remington typewriter, Roto Präziosa, Salzburg, Vienna

In contrast to the “White Rose” leaflet, we wrote, duplicated, and distributed the leaflet “Call to All Germans” in Scholl’s residence. In the composition of this leaflet, we were solely concerned about continuing our political revolutionary movement [Note 1], which by its very nature was leveled at the Führer. Continue reading →

Willi Graf agrees to recruit in Bonn

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Hans Scholl, Willi Graf . Bonn, Leaflet 5, recruitment

Question: Once more I pose this question to you and admonish you to give exact and honest answers thereto: When you traveled to Bonn, Freiburg i.Br., and Ulm, whom did you meet with regarding the distribution of leaflets, or rather, with whom did you speak about the production and distribution of leaflets? Continue reading →

Addressing envelopes (fifth leaflet)

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Sophie Scholl . addresses, Augsburg, Leaflet 5, notebook

All but 12 of the addressees in Augsburg received propaganda letters of the so-called “resistance movement in Germany”. I left out only persons whose addresses I could no longer read when I was typing the addresses. There were about 12 of these. The addressees in Munich that are listed in this notebook did not receive even one letter.

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Source: Third interrogation of Sophie Scholl, February 20, 1943

Social strategy for the fifth leaflet

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl . Leaflet 5, Roto Präziosa, stencils

[Note 1] Due to the scope and relatively large quantity of leaflets that showed up all at once in different places across southern Germany, an uninitiated person would undoubtedly have been of the opinion that this propaganda was being methodically produced by a larger organization. When we mailed the leaflets e.g. in Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, Augsburg, and Stuttgart to local addresses, this was not merely to save money on postage. We also wished to give the impression that there was a local organization that opposed the current regime with this propaganda. We did not ever intend to distract attention away from Munich, that is, the locality where we were working. Continue reading →

Production of fifth leaflet

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl . Erika typewriter, Leaflet 5, Remington typewriter, Roto Präziosa

My brother also typed the stencils for the individual leaflets on the typewriter that “Alex” provided for us. He did this in my presence. We then jointly produced the leaflets on our duplicating machine. Continue reading →

Production of fifth leaflet (indictment)

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Hans Scholl . Leaflet 5, scattering operation

He [Hans Scholl] produced around 7,000 pieces [of Leaflet 5] altogether. Of these, he disseminated approximately 5,000 in downtown Munich and mailed numerous additional pamphlets. Continue reading →

Production of fifth leaflet, Sophie Scholl (indictment)

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl . Leaflet 5

In addition, she [Sophie Scholl] participated in the purchase of duplicating paper, envelopes, and stencils, and together with her brother, she produced the copies of this document. She also supported her brother in the writing of the addresses [for the documents] that were mailed. Continue reading →

Early version of leaflet production

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl . Erika typewriter, Frau Schmidt, Robert Scholl

Question: Can you use a typewriter?

Answer: Yes, somewhat. I type using only my two index fingers, at a very moderate speed. My father has always owned typewriters, which I have been using now and then for the last 10 years. Continue reading →

Hans Scholl’s initial story re leaflet production

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Hans Scholl . Leaflet 5

I alone carried out the duplicating work in my apartment. … Using this [absorbent] paper, I produced approximately 5000 copies of the leaflet “Call to All Germans”…

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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943 (after 4 a.m.)

Willi Graf works on leaflet production

January 20, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Willi Graf . Leaflet 5, Roto Präziosa, stencils

It was only about 8 days later, maybe around January 20, that Hans Scholl told me that I should come to his apartment on a specific afternoon and help him produce leaflets. When I showed up as agreed on the appointed day (January 20 or 21, 1943) at Scholl’s apartment, Scholl’s sister and Schmorell were there too, in addition to Scholl. Continue reading →