Before I left Bonn on Saturday morning, January 23, 1943, I was able to visit an old college friend named Karl Bisa, who resides with his mother at Luisen Str. 9. Bisa is also a member of the armed forces who has been furloughed to continue his studies. He is a member of the Student Company in Bonn.
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I will repeat: I did not speak with anyone in Bonn regarding the distribution of leaflets.
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His [Christoph Probst’s] wife only recently gave birth to their third child and now has puerperal fever. Continue reading
Tangentially I wished to visit a friend – Miss Marita Herfeldt, residing in Bonn, Postelsdorfer Alley 98 / Second Floor. … Continue reading
The first thing I wanted to do in Bonn was assess the overall mood, who among my friends and acquaintances would come into question to help us with the leaflets or to distribute them. But as soon as I got out from under Scholl’s influence, that is, on the way to Bonn, I began to have some reservations [about the matter]. I then hit upon the idea [large illegible section, approximately 2-1/2 pages long]. Continue reading
Regarding the chronological context of each individual event: I can no longer recall precisely when things happened. I think I traveled to Bonn to see a friend on January 21, 1943. That friend was Karl Bisa, and he studies medicine in Bonn, and lives at Luisen Street [illegible]. Continue reading
Besides me, Schmorell also typed out addresses. Schmorell and my sister helped me copy out the addresses in the out-of-town directories at the Deutsches Museum.
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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943 (after 4 a.m.)
Question: From January 21 to 25, 1943, you were in Bonn. What was the purpose of this trip and with whom did you come in contact in Bonn or other locations in the Rhineland? Continue reading
In the other letter, I told her that I could not meet her at the train station in Ulm on Saturday, January 23, 1943 as she requested. She had ordered me to meet her on that day at a specific time at the train station in Ulm, where a Schnellzug coming from Stuttgart would arrive. Continue reading
In addition, this notebook contains 272 addresses of persons in Augsburg and 14 addresses of persons in Munich. I myself copied these addresses out of the address books (edition year unknown to me) that are set out in the Deutsches Museum.
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Source: Third interrogation of Sophie Scholl, February 20, 1943
I left Cologne around noon on January 21, 1943 and arrived in Bonn about three-quarters of an hour later. [Illegible – about 1/3 of a page.]
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Since I was not able to go to Bonn as planned over Christmas – for lack of time – I used my trip to Bonn from January 20 through 23, 1943 to pass along Bollinger’s greeting to Chaplain Tack. I took an express train from Munich to Cologne via Dortmund, that is, along the right-hand side of the Rhine River; that train did not go through Bonn, which is why I went all the way to Cologne. Continue reading
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 