8 J 35/43
1. Letter to be written: To the Chief Prosecutor of the Upper District Court in Munich. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Karl Pötzl
Request for return of typewriter
/Stamp: Sent by Registered Mail!/
Secret State Police [Gestapo]
State Police Headquarters Munich
Account No. 6/142 with the Reichs Bank Munich Continue reading
Deisinger re typewriter
S. Deisinger
Attorney at Law
Munich 15, Nuβbaum Str. 12/I – Munich, July 1, 1943 Continue reading
Pötzl Power of Attorney
Karl Pötzl statement
Secret State Police [Gestapo]
State Police Headquarters Munich
Vol. No. 13 226/43 II A Son. – Munich, March 10, 1943
Summoned to this office, the single chemical engineer Continue reading
Discovery of Remington typewriter (Schmorell)
[Alexander Schmorell]: In the interim, I have borrowed the same typewriter several times. If this typewriter was seized in the Scholls’ residence on February 18 (sic), 1943, that means it was not returned to Pötzel. Continue reading
Remington typewriter, February 1943
[Karl Pötzl]: As far as I know, Schmorell borrowed the typewriter for the last time about 8 days before he was arrested; he got it from my 16-year-old brother Hermann Pötzl. My younger brother told me that he came around the time I have stated and borrowed the typewriter without giving a reason for needing it.
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Note 1: The date (“about 8 days before he was arrested”) ties to the activities of the White Rose group as detailed by Willi Graf’s diary and Gisela Schertling’s interrogations.
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The American typewriter
It was impossible to determine which specific German system the typewriter in question utilizes. Currently, an investigation is underway to determine whether it could be a foreign-made typewriter. In this context it is interesting to note that in the opinion of the State Police Headquarters in Vienna it is possible that the typewriter in question is a foreign-made model (Remington and Underwood brands). Continue reading
Last known Schmorell-Pötzl conversation
[Karl Pötzl]: I personally talked to Alexander Schmorell for the last time as he was getting ready to leave for the Eastern Front. This would have been at the end of the summer semester, I believe it was June (sic) 1942 when he said goodbye to me. I have not had personal contact with Alexander Schmorell for 2 years. At most, we said hello whenever we met. Continue reading
Hans Scholl – first leaflet
During my last interrogation, I explained that I produced and disseminated these documents alone. This is incorrect, because Schmorell was also helpful to me in this regards. I will now try to give a coherent portrayal of the matter: Continue reading
Alexander Schmorell re Leaflet I
For the first time in the summer of 1942, Hans Scholl and I agreed to publish a document against National Socialism. Both of us wrote a draft, which we later compared simultaneously. The result of this train of thought was the publication of the “White Rose” leaflet. Continue reading
The Remington typewriter
As far as I can recall, Schmorell borrowed the portable typewriter (“Remington Portable” [Note 1] brand, serial number unknown) for the first time about 1-1/2 years ago from our family; I do not know who in our family lent it to him. I believe he said he needed it to copy out poetry, because he often said that he wrote poetry. I myself never handed the typewriter over to Schmorell. But my mother or my younger brother always told me when Schmorell had borrowed the typewriter. … Continue reading
Karl Pötzl comments about Alexander Schmorell
[Karl Pötzl]: I have known Alexander Schmorell since childhood, since he lives very near my parents’ home. We attended the same middle school, but of course we were not in the same grade, since Schmorell is two years older. …
Among Schmorell’s circle of friends, I never met the Scholl siblings. Probst was introduced to me by Alexander Schmorell at a meeting in the winter of 1939 / 40. We spoke only briefly and then said goodbye. Continue reading
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 