Category Archives: Gestapo memorandum

Police report re Katharina Schüddekopf

. Gestapo memorandum, Katharina Schüddekopf . , , , , ,

Copy.

State Police Headquarters Magdeburg 2178 – April 4, 1943 – 5 pm – BO –
To State Police Headquarters Munich
Regarding matter of arrest – urgent – please deliver immediately.
Regarding: Matter of high treason Hans Scholl et al.
Previous correspondence: Your telex dated March 30, 1943, Vol. No. 13226/43 II A-Skdo/Gei. Continue reading →

Gestapo memo re Verena Schiel letter

. Gestapo memorandum, Interrogation transcripts, Katharina Schüddekopf, Traute Lafrenz . ,

II A Skdo./Gei. [Special Commission/Geith]

Munich, March 29, 1943

The student Katharina Schüddekopf, currently in police custody (personal data known) wrote a letter to her friend Frl. Dr. Verena Schiel, Erfurt, Ludendorff Str. 40. In that letter, she told her about the circumstances surrounding her arrest. Since the letter may not be mailed, it was held back and confiscated. Continue reading →

Gestapo memorandum in support of indictment

. Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst, Eugen Grimminger, Falk Harnack, Gestapo memorandum, Hans Hirzel, Hans Scholl, Kurt Huber, Manfred Eickemeyer, Sophie Scholl, Susanne Hirzel, Traute Lafrenz, White Rose group, Willi Graf . , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Secret State Police [Gestapo]
State Police Headquarters Munich

Munich, March 23, 1943 Continue reading →

Report of search (Schmorell)

. Alexander Schmorell, Gestapo memorandum . , , ,

Secret State Police [Gestapo] – Munich, February 19, 1943
State Police Headquarters Munich

Vol. No. 13 226/43 II A Sond./Za. [Special Commission – Zacher]

Report of Search

As ordered, a thorough search of the furnished room belonging to single medical student Alexander Schmorell –born September 16, 1917 in Orenburg, residing at Benediktenwand Str. 12, second floor, Munich, his parents’ home – was undertaken by police deputy Grimm (District II B) and the undersigned. Continue reading →

List of suspects

. Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst, Gestapo memorandum, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Willi Graf . , ,

[Note 1] Scholl cited the following as motive: Prior to [Note 2] Stalingrad, he was a soldier. There he was able to determine that the German army would never be capable of defeating the Russians. Germany would absolutely lose the war and therefore it was preferable that the war ended before that happened. Every additional day that war was waged meant more unnecessary bloodshed and could not be justified by the leadership. Therefore, students and the intelligentsia should purge the National Socialist system from the people. Continue reading →

Search of Eickemeyer’s studio

. Gestapo memorandum, Hans Scholl, Manfred Eickemeyer, Sophie Scholl . , , , , , ,

During the course of the interrogation, the accused Scholls admitted that several objects used in the publication of the leaflets were stored in the basement of the studio of the architect Eichemeier [sic]. …

On February 19, 1943, an immediate search of the location described by the accused Sofie Scholl turned up a set of keys. Following that, the undersigned carried out a search of the studio and all its rooms. In the studio proper, no evidence turned up. The following evidence was found in a corner of the basement, hidden by boxes and other objects. Continue reading →