Expert opinion (first trial)

Since the circumstances imply that this case deals with traveling perpetrators who will likely appear in other southern German locations, I have made the plain clothes police [Note 1] in Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, and Würzburg aware of the material contents of the observations to date and requested their cooperation in the war-time search efforts (train inspections). Continue reading →

Mahler re Vienna

January 28, 1943

Denise Heap . Alexander Schmorell, Gestapo memorandum, White Rose group . Anton Mahler, Frankfurt, Vienna

Mahler: According to his report, on January 28, 1943 approximately 1000 leaflets were mailed in Vienna, and “unknown” were turned in (“found”). The same day, approximately 250 leaflets were mailed in Vienna for addressees in Frankfurt am Main, and 146 were turned in (“found”).

Source: ZC13267, Mahler’s report dated February 19, 1943.

Alexander Schmorell – mailing leaflets in Vienna

January 27, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl . Frankfurt, Leaflet 5, Vienna

The next day, I began mailing my letters in various mailboxes. This would have been around 100 – 200 such letters. In Vienna, I also mailed around 50 to 100 leaflets “Call to All Germans!” in letter format; these were destined for Frankfurt a.M. As best as I can recall, Scholl also paid for a portion of this trip to Vienna. I do not remember anything else about it. Continue reading →

Alexander Schmorell to Vienna

January 26, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell . Frankfurt, Leaflet 5, Vienna

The next morning (January 26, 1943) around 6 am, Schmorell took the express train to Vienna via Salzburg and Linz. He mailed the letters for Salzburg and Vienna in those cities, concluding in Vienna (he also mailed the letters for Frankfurt in Vienna). Continue reading →

The Salzburg/Vienna trip

January 26, 1943

CWRS Staff . Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl . Frankfurt, Leaflet 5, Linz, Salzburg, Vienna

In conclusion, I would also like to state that I did not disseminate these leaflets solely in Munich, but also in other cities of the Reich. At the end of January 1943, I went from Munich to Salzburg with around 1500 “Leaflets of the Resistance Movement in Germany” which I had individually addressed in advance. Continue reading →