When we arrived there [university], I initially wanted my sister to wait for me at the entrance. I finally realized that it was practical to walk around the university building together with my sister and to undertake the distribution of the leaflets together. Continue reading
Mahler: “On February 18, 1943, Hans and Sofie Scholl distributed around 1500 leaflets entitled ‘Fellow Students!’ in the university, as well as between 50-80 pieces of the leaflet entitled ‘German Students!’ Almost all of these were seized.”
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Source: ZC13267, Mahler’s report dated February 19, 1943.
Question: What did the suitcase contain that you were carrying today?
Answer: Nothing. The suitcase was empty. Continue reading
I would also like to tell the truth about the events in the University of Munich this morning. I hereby confess that my brother and I brought these leaflets into the university in the suitcase that was confiscated upon our apprehension. We also scattered the leaflets. Continue reading
As we neared Prof. Huber’s lecture hall, the lecture was not quite ended. Therefore I and my brother went up one more flight of stairs so I could show him the Psychological Institute where I often attend lectures. Continue reading
We walked down the right-hand side of Ludwig Street to the university and arrived there around 10:45 am. I do not know the exact time when we arrived. There was one or the other lecture that I did not want to attend today, since I am currently studying for my boards. Continue reading
When we entered the university building, my brother and I met several male and female students on the stairs to the second floor. They were just leaving Dr. Huber’s lecture. Continue reading
Question: Did you meet anyone you knew on the way from your apartment to the university?
Answer: I did not meet anyone on the way, but directly in front of the entrance to the university on Ludwig Street, I met the medical student Willi Graf (resides at Mandl Str. 1 c/o Bersche [sic]) and the medical student Traude [sic] Lafrenz, residence unknown. Continue reading
I had to leave the lecture about 10:50 am, because I had to be in the neurology clinic on Nussbaum Street by 11:15 am. I did not see the Scholl siblings when I left the university. If I had encountered them, it would not have escaped my notice, because it is not often that people enter the university carrying a suitcase.
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Source: Fourth interrogation of Willi Graf, February 26, 1943
Willi Graf likewise was often in Scholl’s apartment, but not as often as Schmorell. He also worked with Hans Scholl and Schmorell. But I never knew what they were working on. Graf never brought anyone with him when he came to visit. Continue reading
I left the remaining leaflets in my desk until Thursday, February 18, 1943. On that day, early in the morning I discussed distributing the leaflets at the university. I packed the leaflets in a suitcase and the briefcase. We left for the university together around 10:30 am. Continue reading
Question and Remonstrance: There is reason to believe that you brought the leaflets to the university in the suitcase and threw them from the third floor into the Lichthof. Do you not wish to make a true statement before long?
Answer: It is not true that I brought the leaflets to the university in my suitcase and threw them from the third floor into the Lichthof. I hereby expressly state that I alone carried this suitcase from my apartment till I was apprehended by Schmied.
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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943 (after 4 a.m.)
Question: How did you come to have a copy of the letter that was found on your person – a letter that had already been ripped up? It began with the words “Stalingrad! 200,000 German brothers were sacrificed!”
Answer: When I left my apartment around 10:30 this morning, I found a letter in my mailbox. The envelope was white and it had been addressed by hand: Mr. Hans Scholl, Munich, Franz-Josef Str. 13, Garden House. I briefly skimmed the letter in the foyer of my apartment and then tore it up. I stuck the individual bits of paper in my coat pocket. … Continue reading
I made tea for us at home, then we left our apartment around 10:30 a.m. …
As my brother and I were leaving our apartment around 10:30 am, the mailbox was most certainly empty, because I had emptied it myself only an hour earlier. After emptying the mailbox, I locked it back up and hung the mailbox key on a nail inside the glass enclosure between the coat rack and the glass enclosure. Other keys hang on the same nail.
When we left the house at 10:30 am, my brother and I left the apartment together. While my brother was locking the door to the apartment, I waited for him either in the foyer or at the front door.
The house’s mailbox has a small glass window on the back side. Therefore whenever there is mail inside it, it is visible from outside the mailbox. When my brother and I left the house together at the stated time, the mailbox was most certainly empty, because I would have noticed had there been mail inside.
Question: Who carried the suitcase from the time you left the apartment until you were apprehended?
Answer: To the best of my knowledge, from the time we left the apartment until right before we were in front of the university building, my brother was carrying the suitcase. Once inside the building, we took turns carrying the suitcase. I do not know what else I can say. …
Question: There is therefore no doubt that when you left your apartment this morning, you waited by the front door of the garden house while your brother locked the door to your apartment. Nevertheless, you would have been able to see had additional mail landed in your mailbox, or rather if your brother had retrieved anything from the mailbox.
Answer: I can only repeat that I did not see any additional mail in the mailbox. If my brother had taken anything out of the mailbox at that time, I most certainly would have noticed it, if for no other reason than that he would have had to retrieve the key from behind the foyer door so he could unlock the mailbox. In addition, I would have wanted to know what kind of mail it was, whether it could have been addressed to me. As we were walking away from the garden house together, my brother most certainly was not opening or reading a letter as far as I remember [Note 1]. If that had been the case, I would have seen it.
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Note 1: This was added in Sophie Scholl’s handwriting.
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Source: First interrogation of Sophie Scholl, February 18, 1943
This morning, I got up at 8:30 am, subsequently ate breakfast, read, and left my apartment around 10:30 am. I carried an empty suitcase with me. My sister carried my empty leather briefcase. My sister Sofie Scholl accompanied me from my apartment (Franz-Josef Str. 13) to the university. We walked down the right-hand side of Ludwig Street to the university and arrived there around 10:45 am. … Continue reading
On the day that the well-known event played out at the university, when Hans Scholl was arrested, I had not been at [the apartment on] Franz Josef Str. at all. Continue reading
Miss Scholl was not in the lecture today, nor was her brother.
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Source: Continuation of Gisela Schertling’s February 18 interrogation
Question: Did you receive any other mail today?
Answer: No. My sister likewise did not receive any mail today. Though she usually receives around 2 letters every day, today she received nothing. Continue reading
Question: Do you and your brother maintain regular correspondence with friends and acquaintances? Continue reading
This morning, I got up at 8:30 am, subsequently ate breakfast, read …
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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943
[Sophie Scholl:] I made tea for us at home.
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Source: First interrogation of Sophie Scholl, February 18, 1943
My brother and I got up around 9 am today.
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Source: First interrogation of Sophie Scholl, February 18, 1943
This morning, I got up at 8:30 am …
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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943
After that, I stayed in [Hans] Scholl’s apartment until around 10 pm. During that time, I did not notice that they were making any preparations for a leaflet operation (the next day) at the university.
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Around 3 pm, I returned to my apartment and stayed there till 7 pm.
After that, I met Hans and Sophie [at their apartment] on Franz Josef Str. We ate supper together at the Seehaus [Restaurant] in the English Gardens. Continue reading
I did not see Hans again until lunch in his apartment.
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Hans and I left my apartment early (around 9 am) on Wednesday [February 17].
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I wanted to meet a girlfriend there. This is Miss Gisela Schertling, residing in Munich, Lindwurm Street 13/Fourth Floor c/o Wertheimer. She is also a friend of my sister Sofie Scholl. The two of them were together in Labor Service. Continue reading
That evening, Hans came to me around 9 pm (sic) and spent the night with me. When he arrived, he apologized for coming so late.
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We only had sex in my apartment. That was when Hans Scholl spent the night with me on one occasion and slept with me. That was the Tuesday before his arrest.
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I was not with Scholls the last two evenings. I must correct that. Evening before last [February 16, 1943], Hans Scholl visited me. He stayed with me all night and slept on the couch that is in my room. Since it had gotten pretty late, he did not want to go home. Continue reading
I only know that Hans Scholl visited him [Josef Söhngen] often in his bookstore on Maximilianplatz and in his apartment. Hans did not tell me anything else about this acquaintance. Continue reading
He said he had been with the bookstore owner Söhngen. He had had to make amends with him, because he had not seen him in a while. He had drunk a bottle of wine with Söhngen, namely in his residence on Maximiliansplatz. Continue reading
I [Hans Scholl] put the duplicating machine in the basement about 5 days ago. It is easy to find the apparatus.
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Source: Hans Scholl’s second interrogation, February 18, 1943 (after 4 a.m.)
We hid the duplicating machine (that my brother had purchased for purposes of duplicating the leaflets) in the studio of the artist Eyckemeir [sic], Leopold Str. 38, rear entrance, about 14 days or 3 weeks ago. Continue reading
After that, we went to Eickemeyer’s studio where we cleaned, because an exhibition of paintings was to be opening there [soon]. Continue reading
Sophie and I left the apartment around 3 pm without telling Hans we were leaving. On that occasion, Sophie took along the briefcase with the leaflets. About half an hour later, we deposited them in the mailbox on Leopold Str. Continue reading
She additionally admits that she helped Hans Scholl hide the leaflets in the desk, and that on the following Monday (sic) she and Sophie Scholl placed around 50 leaflets in a mailbox. In so doing, she knew that they were treasonous and seditious leaflets. Continue reading
Once we were back at the apartment, Hans Scholl called us. He said he wanted to look me up at my apartment on Lindwurm Str. because he had needed to get some money from me for a trip to Stuttgart. But since he no longer could catch that train, he would come back to the apartment on Franz Josef Str. Continue reading
When we were finished duplicating our leaflets, we took the duplicating machine to the property Leopold Str. 38, studio, cellar, purely out of security considerations. Hans Scholl /added by hand: and/ I carried this out. In so doing, we were in agreement that production of leaflets would be only temporarily suspended and that should the appropriate occasion arise, we would do it again. Continue reading
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 