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Professor Harder – Munich 22, February 18, 1943
Ludwig Str. 14, 1st staircase
Confidential.
After two leaflets (A and B) were submitted to me yesterday, I received four additional leaflets (Leaflets of the White Rose No. I – IV) today. I will designate these with the letters C – F and once again use line numbers. In addition I have been advised that it has been proven through technical means that the author of A B is identical to the author of C – F. Continue reading
On August 8, one copy each of Leaflet I and Leaflet IV were mailed to police headquarters via registered mail. The two leaflets were mailed together from Post Office 22 at 8 a.m.
Source: ZC13267, report detailing leaflets that had been turned in to the Gestapo (35-38). The report was not dated.
According to the Gestapo, a copy of Leaflet IV was mailed on July 12 at 9:00 P.M. from Post Office 2:
Source: ZC13267, report detailing leaflets that had been turned in to the Gestapo (35-38). The report was not dated.
According to the Gestapo, a copy of Leaflet IV was mailed on July 12 at 3:00 P.M. from an unknown post office:
We worked in the same manner for the production and distribution of the “White Rose” leaflet, editions 2 and 3. I therefore describe both of these editions as the intellectual property of both me and Scholl, because we did everything jointly. We worked in my parents’ home (where I have my own room on the third floor) in such a manner that my parents could not possibly notice. Continue reading
Leaflets of the White Rose IV
There is an old proverb that children are always taught anew: Pay attention or pay the consequences. A smart child will only burn his fingers once on a hot stove. Continue reading
The “White Rose” Leaflet No. IV occupied itself with the progress of the war. It postulated that German successes had evoked consternation and pessimism among Hitler’s opponents in Germany, “therefore among the better part of the nation.” Continue reading
I [Hans Scholl] wrote all of the fourth leaflet. We did not draw upon any other sources for our comments.
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Source: Sixth interrogation of Hans Scholl, February 21, 1943
Yesterday’s expert analysis, page 3, number 4, Christian overtones: This now comes clearly into view. Christian expressions multiply. … F 22, death as reaper. F 27, accusation of blasphemy. … But he lets his Christian mask slip most clearly in F: F 44, the One God. F 46, the true God. In F 98, he appears as the bad conscience of mankind. F 47, ship without a rudder, infant without a mother, a cloud that dissipates: these singular images apparently stem from Christian mysticism, I suspect from Meister Ekkehard. Continue reading
I believe it was in the first half of July 1942 that I learned from my friend Lafrenz that a 4th or rather an additional edition of the “White Rose” had appeared. Continue reading
White Rose History: January 1933 - October 1943 