Around evening, I met a farmhand named Micha, whom I knew. I rode with him to Elmau under the assumption that I perhaps could spend the night there. But when Micha said he would not let me do so, I left Elmau so I could sleep in a nearby haystack (the night of February 22 / 23, 1943).
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Source: RGWA, February 26, 1943 interrogation of Alexander Schmorell.
[Expense report states:] Return trip (itinerary): 10 p.m. Departure from Munich. 2nd class. Express (D) train. Sleeper car via Nuremberg to Berlin. Arrival at 9:12 a.m. in Berlin.
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[Expense report states:] Return trip (itinerary): 9:24 p.m. Departure from Munich. Second class. Express (D) train. Sleeper car via Regensburg to Berlin. Arrival at 9:27 a.m. in Berlin.
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[Expense report states:] Return trip: (Itinerary) – 9:24 p.m. Departure from Munich. 3rd classs. Express (D) train. Sleeper car via [blank] to Berlin. Arrival at 9:12 a.m. in Berlin Anh. train station.
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Postal Service of the German Reich.
Telegram 67 MUNICH F 9 22 1740 = CHIEF PROSECUTOR PEOPLE’S COURT BERLIN = Continue reading
/Illegible/ Trial Date: 22. Feb 1943 8 J 35 / 43 /Illegible/
Chief Prosecutor of the People’s Court [Note 1]
Criminal Case
Against
Scholl and 2 others Defense Counsel: Page: Continue reading
[Expense report states:] … Ending at 2/22/1943, around 6 p.m.
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Note: Bischoff and Weyersberg were involved with the executions.
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File No.: 8J 35/43.
Scholl Hans September 22, 1918, Ingersheim. Continue reading
File No.: 8J 35/43
Scholl Sofie May 9, 1921, Forchtenberg
Munich, February 22, 1943 Continue reading
[Expense report states:] … ending at 5:30 p.m.
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Note: Weyersberg and Bischoff were involved with the executions.
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With regards to Sophie Scholl’s last wishes that in addition to Prof. Muth, I should give her greetings to the friends in Munich as well, I can only assume that these greetings were for the Graf siblings. I cannot name anyone else who could have been part of Scholl siblings’ circle of friends [Note 1]. Continue reading
File No.: 8J 35/43.
Scholl Hans September 22, 1918, Ingersheim. Continue reading
On Monday, I returned to Elmau. I must correct that. I did not go back to Elmau, I went on to Mittenwald. Around evening, I met a farmhand named Micha, whom I knew. I rode with him to Elmau under the assumption that I perhaps could spend the night there.
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Source: RGWA, February 26, 1943 interrogation of Alexander Schmorell.
File No.: 8J 35/43
Scholl Sofie May 9, 1921, Forchtenberg Continue reading
Decree
/Illegible
(case number)/
In the criminal proceedings against Scholl and others, Continue reading
According to the State Police Headquarters in Munich, in the criminal proceedings against Scholl et al which were carried out on February 22, 1943 by the People’s Court at the Palace of Justice in Munich, a large number of evidentiary exhibits – including a portable Remington typewriter – were delivered to the court that day by the State Police. The People’s Court never reached a decision regarding the disposition of the evidence. … Continue reading
[Expense report states:] Session of the People’s Court … Ending at: 2 p.m.
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Attention! [Note 1]
Hans Scholl described today’s proceedings as “an utter farce [Note 2]”.
Schmauβ, Crim. Secr. Continue reading
Trial date [Note 1]: February 22, 1943 /8J 35/43/
Supplementary Volume II Continue reading
[Expense report states:] Session of the People’s Court … ending at: 2 p.m.
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Munich Prison – Stadelheim
/Stamp: Reich Prosecutor’s Office, [illegible], February 25, 1943/ Continue reading
Munich Prison – Stadelheim
/Stamp: [illegible], February 25, 1943/
Delivered – Surrendered: 2/22/43 at 1:45 pm. From: Trial in Munich. Continue reading
Public Session – Berlin, /Handwritten: Munich/, February 22, 1943
Of the First Council of the People’s Court
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End of the proceedings: 12:45 pm.
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[Expense report states:] Sergeant-at-arms for session … ending at: 12:40 p.m.
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After the public was readmitted to the proceedings, The President [of the Council] pronounced the following verdict:
[Note 1] In the name of the German people! Continue reading
The presiding judge adjourned the proceedings. The court retired for deliberation.
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The representative of the Chief Prosecutor of the Reich and the defense counsel for the accused were now permitted to state their cases.
The representative of the Chief Prosecutor of the Reich requested: Continue reading
After every witness, expert witness, and accused had been examined, and a After every document had been read aloud, the accused were asked whether they had anything to say. They made their explanations. Continue reading
On February 22, 1943, it was presented as evidence in the trial of Hans Scholl et al for crimes of high treason (file number 1 H 47/43 [Note 1]). The trial of that date was carried out by the People’s Court at the Palace of Justice in Munich. Nothing is known in this office of the whereabouts of this typewriter. Continue reading
It was unanimously agreed that:
There was no need to call the witness. Continue reading
The representative of the Chief Prosecutor of the Reich then advised the accused, whose ____ excused recited the indictment against the accused. Continue reading
Appearing as defense counsel:
a.) Attorney Klein for the accused Hans and Sophia Scholl
b.) Attorney Dr. Ferdinand Seidl for the accused Probst.
Both Attorney Klein and Attorney Seidl were required to defend the accused by order of the court. Continue reading
[Expense report states:] Business purpose of trip: Session of the People’s Court. Beginning at 11 a.m.
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[Expense report states:] Business purpose of trip: Session of the People’s Court. Beginning at 11 a.m.
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After that, I went to a dairy on Leopold Str. There I met a [male] student whom I had once seen with Scholl. He asked me if I knew anything about the people who had been arrested. I did not have the impression that he had any connection to the matter. Continue reading
[Expense report states:] Business purpose of trip: Sergeant-at-arms for session. Beginning at: 10 a.m.
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On Monday, I returned to Elmau. I must correct that. I did not go back to Elmau, I went on to Mittenwald.
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Source: RGWA, February 26, 1943 interrogation of Alexander Schmorell.
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 