" Gisela, I have to leave" " What are you leaving for?" " Gisela" " Oh, I see" "Come on, let's go" " Ok, meet you at the English park tomorrow noon at twelve - in front the cabin by the lake?" " Yes, Hans really should give me a phone call" " I'll remind him" " Has he calm down now?" " You shouldn't have yelled at him" "Everything will be fine" "Finally, you should have arrived earlier Hurry, let's go" " Is this all?" " the rest has not arrived yet" ""German people are shocked by soldiers who fell into the abyss of death at Stalingrad 330,000 fellowmen are forced to death and extermination step by step by the great strategies of our strategists meaninglessly and irresponsibly" "Little Sophielein, if you can help Willi he must be very happy" "This is the stamp, and this is the address" "Thanks" "What to do with the rest?" "I'll go deliver them at the college tomorrow" " Are you crazy?" " Willi, did you forget the female college students demonstrating at the Germany Museum a few days ago?" " almost succeed" " Gestapo have been in the first ground alert for this" " Hans..." " Don't forget our slogans are everywhere" "Hans, before we have any new envelopes we can hide the rest under the board" "No need." "There is nothing left." "Lack of paper" "It's already pretty dangerous to write slogans on walls at night" "But compare with giving out flyers at campus in the day time..." "Do you want to die?" "We have to make our best efforts, cannot wait anymore Let's bring along the whole city!" "It's the most tense moment of the Stalingrad warfare now." "Nazi's secret agents are all over the campus!" "If bolshevists come now, just to kill them all..." " At least we can kill them once for all" " If I were you" "I won't hope Soviet Union comes before Americans" "Don't you hate bolshevist the most?" "Hans, are you crazy?" "Don't go to deliver them in colleges!" "I'll go when they are having classes, nobody will be in the hall..." "I'll come out soon, entering from the front gate and get out from the back one" " It's too dangerous!" " Willi..." "I will take all the responsibility if anything happens." "Won't embroil others" "You are going to walk through Schwabing with a big suitcase?" "Let's me take this" "Hans, I don't think we should embroil Sophie in this..." "If we were to be checked, it would be easier for a woman to pass" "She is right" "Alright, let's go" "Alex, meet me in my place at twelve tomorrow" " Starting from tomorrow, no wait?" " We can wait, but Nazis won't" "Thanks" "Don't work too late" " Goodnight" " Goodnight" "Dear Lisa, I'm listening to Schubert's Trout Quintet" "I feel Schubert's inspiration is flowing in air" "I can hear the happy tweedle of birds and little creatures" "The piano constantly repeats the same thematic rhythm just like a clear, crystal creek oh, they make me so enchanted Wish I can hear from you soon" "Best wishes, yours Sophie" "Not sure if mom still have some jam?" "This brand they only sell turnip juice now" "Not conspicuous enough, right?" " We bring the light of hope into colleges today" " Yes" "Good morning!" " Good morning" " We are going to a neurology hospital, you want to come along?" " Sophie is going to Ulm by bus." "I will be there soon" " Hurry up" "Hurry, hurry up" " There are some in the case, Hans" " What?" " No one is up there, wait a second" " I'm going with you" "Freeze!" "Stop!" "Stop right now!" "You... don't run... stop!" " You are under arrested!" "Stop, damned" " What's wrong?" " You are under arrested!" " Ridiculous, how can you arrest us randomly!" " You are the only people upstairs, come with me" " We were coming out from the Department of Psychology" " You are handing out fly sheets" " Nonsense" "Let go of him, it's me taking off those sheets" "Good you admit that." "I'm going to report you You come with me, both of you!" "Believe me, even in my college you cannot get away if you are doing that" ""German people are shocked by soldiers at Stalingrad... "" "Come in!" "So many?" "Unbelievable!" " They are all here?" " Yes!" "You can go now!" "Schmid, write a report" "We will catch them all" "There... there This college student seems to have something in his hands..." "Quick, give it to me!" "Look, there is one more fly sheet" "Give it to me!" "Or you want me to do it myself?" "They should be put together" " I'm Mohr, national police." "Long live Hitler" " Long live Hitler" "This two, they are under arrested for now..." " These are the documents I took over" " It's me took these two guys..." "Do you have any ID?" " Ms. Sophia Magdalena Scholl?" " Yes" " Mr. Hans Fritz Scholl?" " Yes" " Brother and sister?" " Yes" "Female" "21 years old... so, you want to resist Reich that... has already taken the whole Europe?" "when the guy noticed be watched by me he started ripping the paper in hands an unacquainted classmate handed it over to me forcedly" "I ripped it 'cause I don't want to bring any trouble" " Is this your case?" " yes, it's mine" "Take it!" "I've given the order to close off the college any teachers and other personnel shall not leave the school" "Sure!" "certainly I will stay too" " go back and tell Alex to leave me alone" " Quiet!" "Scholl, Hanz, get in the room to Maller for inquest follow me, madam!" "come here please!" "unlock cuff!" "Thanks" "Let's begin" "sit down" "Sophia Magdalena Scholl, from Ulm born on May 9, 1992 in Forchtenberg" "Christian, and your father?" "Robert Scholl, mayor of Forchtenberg" " any professional nursery education before?" " yes, I have currently live in Munich, NO 13 Franz-Joseph ST." " landlord's name is Smith?" " yes" " any criminal record?" " none you have admitted right in front of the dorm administrator that it was you... who spreaded the fly sheets from balustrade the fly sheets were on the marble handrail" "I spreaded them casually when I was passing by why?" "it's my nature, see anything, move anything... that's it" "I admitted it then and there and I knew..." "I made a stupid mistake" "I am very regretted, but things can not be changed anyhow" "Miss Scholl, you spreaded fly sheets in college and it has violated Kriegssonderstrafrechtsverordnung do you want to know the punishment for quislism and collaborationism?" " it has nothing to do with me - imprisonment, labor reform..." " or execution - it has nothing to do with me, definitely" " cigarettes?" " no, thanks" " but you do smoke, right?" " occasionally" "perfect for this situation just coincidence" "why did you bring an empty case to school?" "I planed to go to Ulm by car pick up my clothes in house" " the clothes were taken home for washing by my mother - back to Ulm?" "it's not weekend now you want to take that long trip back home?" " yes - just for some clothes?" "not only for the clothes, I also want to visit a friend she just had a baby" " and, my mother was sick - why didn't you wait till weekend?" "so you skipped classes?" "why did you go home so hurry?" "because my friend suggested going to Hamburg so I want to get back before weekend" "I planed to take 12:48 train and I already made the appointment with my sister's friend in Heltz Station you can ask him" " his name?" " Otto Aicher he started from Solln and reached Munich at 12... 11:30" " Aicher, start with an "e"?" " start with "a - i"" "you didn't put clothes in the case to Ulm for washing?" "no, I wash my own small clothes as for the big ones, no one is needed for washing yet" "so, it means you don't need clean clothes yet?" "but just now you were saying... you expressly bring an empty case to home for washed clothes?" "I was thinking that since I went back to Ulm I should bring next week's clothes too so you want to go back to Ulm why did you still come back to school?" "I had an appointment with a friend her name is Gisela Schertling we planed to have lunch together in the cabin at British park lakeside at 12 noon didn't you go to Ulm?" "I decided that today temporarily" "I came back to school to cancel the appointment with Gisela" "why did your brother accompany you to the school?" "didn't you just come to cancel the appointment?" "Hanz and I often go to school together Hanz wants to go to neurosurgery school" "dorm administrator said, about 11 o'clock you two were on aisle of the third floor" " what were you doing?" " we were on the way searching for Gisela she was in Pro." "Huber's philosophy class" " but that was on 2nd floor - yes, we were there 10 minutes early so I took my brother to psychology department for a look most of my classes are in 3rd floor, psychology department where did you see the fly sheets?" "you mean the paper?" "everywhere" " and you did not even take a look and see what it written?" " yes, I did, but only a glance" " my brother told a joke about this - a political joke?" "no, he said it wastes paper, he is just like me not interested in politics" "several days ago, when a district principal gave speech in Germany Museum a bunch of female college students made trouble" "were you there?" "No" " everybody should be there while in the speech" " I don't attend any politics what do you think of the speech given by district principal as he mentioned... girls should think about how to give birth for leaders while not fooling around in college" "He said the ugly one can marry to his adjutant" "This is a taste problem" "What you did in university" "Already make you a suspect, I seriously advise you" "Don't be hesitate any more to tell the truth" "I deny that I have any connection with this leaflet" "Except the joke I made, I understand that" "The suspicion for us before you finds the real wrongdoers." " But my brother and I has nothing to do with this" " Do you really think?" "You can hide it before me when answer the question?" "What do you think?" "All I told you are truth" "Mrs. Scholl, my co-worker did not" "Find anything leaflet in that case, you brother's Confession also proved what you said" "You can relax now" "I never worried" "Let the recorder come in" "I will let her to record my statement You have to listen carefully" "If there is any conflict with your affidavit You must tell me right away" " Are you clear, Mrs. Scholl?" " Yes" "Although this will be kept in your criminal record" "But, we will see" "Maybe you still can go to Ulm according to the plan" "It is over" "Metternich!" "Retirement certificate Hail Hitler" "Mr. Sch¨¹rmer, follow me" "You students think you can be here" "Fool us?" "Please hand out your jewellery, watch" "We already made up our mind to Use our lives to resist" "Do not consider the world surrounding us" " No matter understand the necessity of this war or not" " Necklace and pendant" "The time for a full scale war already comes" "Follow me" "Let us say farewell to fear and meaningless hesitation" "In this fight with fate" "Abide our rule: clean my leather coat But do not make me wet!" "(Means the law deprive citizen's right for consultation in 1935)" " Please take off you cloth and give it to me" "It is great danger" "We must put into huge effort" "If you still have any illegal stuff, give it me I help you throw them in to toilet" "I am also a prisoner Now, that time is coming" "I have nothing" "Please take off your gloves" "OK, let's continue" "Tomorrow will knee down to thank us our acceptance for him" "Ladies, get in, hurry, hurry, I want to listen to the lecture" "Do you know how my brother is now?" "Your brother already had it He is waiting with other men up there" "You are the main suspect Because you have the case" "Leaflets are threw down by your too Do not admit anything!" "I admitted nothing" "How long have you been here?" "One year and five days" "They caught one of my letters, I quoted Words that Ludwig-Thoma criticizes Hitler" " Even though, you still work for those people" " They order me to do this" "The reason why I am here Is to prevent you to commit suicide" " Why are you again Nazi?" " My brother and I are communist" "Even my brother has a very senior position in an insurance company" "I admire the selfless help in communist party" "People have to do something" "Scholl Sophia, go with me!" "I hope, we never see each other, good luck!" "You too, good luck!" "Wait here" "OK, Mrs., your release paper You are lucky this time" "Please speak up" "Understood" "Follow me, follow me" "You can take off your coat" "Sit down" "Your father was put into jail for 6 weeks Because you call our leader is" "God's punishment for human being" "He was arrested for the crime of conspiracy" "Also his license was revoked too" "I want to know." "You join Hitler Jugend" "What do you dad think about that?" "My dad never influence our political preference" "Typical democrat Why do you join Hitler Jugend?" "Because I heard that Hitler will bring our nation glory" "Good luck and fortune, everyone will have job and bread" "Everybody will enjoy freedom and happiness" " You are single?" " I am engaged" "With Fritz Hartnagel He is a commander of eastern front" "Stalingrad?" "Yes" " When was the last time you see each other?" " Half year ago" "Have you seen this gun before?" "My brother had a gun like this He was sergeant in army" "Why do you have 190 bullets in your drawer?" "9mm bullets?" "They are also my brother's" "When was the last time you buy stamps?" " About two week ago" " Where did you buy, and how many did you buy?" "Leopoldstrasse street, post office 23" "Ten 12 cents and five 6 cents I can't remember exactly" " Only those, you did not buy more?" " No" "Have you seen these stamps?" "No" " Are you sure you never seen them?" " Never" "This was what we found in your brother's room" "Why did you never mention..." "Your brother has a lot stamps?" "Your question is when and where I bought stamps recently one hundred and forty?" "who needs that many of stamps?" "for what?" "what you need to send out?" "compliment to friends and relative, we are in touch." " so, your have seen those stamps?" " I am just guessing." "you found those from my brother's place, not mine" "is this your typewriter?" "it was in my brother's room, we borrowed it from landlord." " she lent to us to type something." " what thing?" "An essay about philosophy and theology" " not for typing those handbills?" " No" "An essay about philosophy and theology?" "something like..." ""Hitler could not win this war, only keep it going"" "or "a criminal cannot give Germany victory"" "or "federation is the future of Germany, freedom of speech, freedom of religion"" "Hans didn't write those" " You wrote those?" " No" " but you believe this kind of world order" " I don't care about politics, and I won't anyway, we compared all those writing, and all those bullshit are done by this typewriter, then at the beginning of this month, they are sent to different addresses, include Munich" "I have no idea about this" "sit there!" "watch it!" "all those bullshit were from your brother's place and your were there and he was planning to destroy all those bills" "Have you seen those paper before?" " No - keep your lie, but read this for me." ""two hundred thousands German died..." " just for one war opportunist"" " Does this remind you something?" "Is it similar to other six handbills?" "Take look at the handwriting" " I don't know" " Listen to me!" "this part of evil speaking comes from a guy named Christoph Probst" "He is a friend of your at Innsbruck." "We found his letter." "Exactly same handwriting!" "Probst is also a student in astrology love family and mountains of motherland." "An other do oneself proud bastard Never understand people are dying at battlefront." "who is in, beside you, your brother and that Christoph Probst." " who did those bills?" " please stop slandering me?" "You held back all those evidence from your home" "Even I asked you to give me the truth" "I just admit what I really did" "how about listen this, your brother, was just like you, how to explain those evidence" ""the military plan failed at eastern line..." "U.S.A and British military force increased unpredictability." "I concluded that we could not win this war after painfully thinking in long time..." "I believe that avoiding the meaningless death... and keeping the integrality of Europe the only way is finish the war as soon as possible, in the other hand,..." "I also have deep fear about the way we treat the occupation area and people in the area"" "that is just his political point, not exculpation to your slander this is disorganizing army and betraying our country!" "I don't believe my brother said that!" "So you think your brother was lying to us?" "Before my brother talk to me personally," "I won't believe that he said those" "Eickemayer Studio you heard about it?" "Yes" "Eickemayer is at Krakau in recent few months, he gave the key... of studio to us, let us take a look" "the fingerprint on the copymachine... they are your brother's" "your brother has admitted" "he designed, copyed and handed out all six kinds of handbills." "He tried to make me believe that, he sent out five thousand handbills in Munich at one night" "you lived with your brother you were all in the hallway this morning and you still want me believe that you have nothing to do with this?" "you think all these slander are meaningless?" "Just admit it!" "You and your brother made and sent those handbills!" "YES!" "and I am proud of it!" "what will happen to me and my brother?" "You should think about this at beginning Miss Scholl" " Our relative will be embroiled?" " I can't decide it" " I have to go to washroom" " Not now!" "Who draft out these?" " Me!" " You are lying Miss Scholl!" "Just few weeks ago... we did the writing check from the report, we are sure they are from a male." "Your brother is the author and the planner!" " who mailed out these handbills?" " my brother and I" "excuse me, I have to go to washroom" "Locher!" "Washroom!" "follow me" "Hurry!" "open the handcuffs, it hurts!" "What are you doing with them?" "you know, Miss Scholl?" "there is no leeway... you know it, next door to the left" "Who wrote these banner "Step out!" "Hitler!"..." ""FREEDOM"... and a crossed NSDAP badge, University Ludwig street" "Marienplatz Kaufinger street and Schwabing everywhere my brother and I" "Your brother said after he got arrested "go back home... tell Alex don't wait for me"" "Schertling was right there" "He was telling Schmorell to run away?" "Hans had a appointment with Schmid, he didn't want him wait for nothing." " You mentioned about your plan to Schmorell?" " No" " and Graf?" " No" " why are you keep lying?" " I did not" "here this is your confession!" "Sign it!" "Locher!" "take her out!" "I heard about Mohr told Locher:" "this kind of people... is what Germany needs but we have to re-educate them" "Maybe they will try to rebuild your world view" "but I will tell you, they may just wait" " why?" " even the bosses are impatience a lot people think allied forces will get into Germany in eight to ten weeks after that sooner or later, Germany will be liberated" "If my mother know I am under arrest" "She won't stand the shock" "She is over 60, and she is sick all the month" "If Gestapo goes to my house... she my get in jail cause us... and your father?" "He is 10 years younger than my mom, he always bring us the immaterial power your mom is not alone." "Thanks" ""we are not silence, we are the forgotten conscience" "White roses let you cannot sleep in peace!"" " Who are "us"?" " My brother wrote this." "at the last line of 4th handbill, "please copy... and pass around", and here is about resist movement" " doesn't sound like couple peoples' crime" " We don't have organization" "How much you know about Willi Graf?" "Sergeant he has same major as my brother came to our house sometimes." "we knew he helped you guys copying the handbills at the studio" "Maybe you found his fingerprint" " but he went to studio at other time." " When?" "Middle of January, We were going to see Eickemayer' painting that's the reason why others' fingerprints are in studio" " who were there?" "Schmorell?" " Maybe, I don't know" "I was just there at beginning, then I went to concern" " Probst brought handbills to Salzburg and Linz?" " No" "Hans didn't tell him anything, cause he has wife and three children here, you have to tell me the damn truth, I am asking you." "Who is in?" "Graf Anneliese?" "I totally met them about 10 times." " what did you talk about?" " about lecture and science" " My impression of Graf is that he has no interested in politics - no interested but knew the inside?" "I have to say Graf has nothing to do with the handbills" " how about Schertling?" " Gisela met me several times." "we studied in same university, and we knew each other before that." " she is NSDAP - as your saying Miss Scholl" "The member of resist movement is everywhere in Germany they all look like have no interested in politics" "It is good for your, isn't it?" "Mr. Mohr" "As our counting, this so called "white rose"... bought ten thousand papers in Jan... and two thousand envelops" " who did that?" " my brother and I only hundreds of handbills for the 1st to 4th." "it makes sense." "But you wish I believe you two copied thousands of handbills for the 5 and 6th edition?" " then sent them out?" " we worked on them day and night." "I admire you and you take class at the same time?" "yes we were faking there are lots of members" "we knew your brother Graf Schmorell" "Furtw?" "ngler and Wittenstein served at eastern line before." "all the people got in university in Munich any political movement between them?" "My brother just told me about innumerable death." " but never talked about his comrade" " I don't believe you Miss Scholl" "At this period, everyone is careful about their political speech." "Just like what you say in the handbill?" "you found these address there?" "copy from phonebook of German museum" "let's take a look at Stuttgart:" "Jan 27th and the morning after, totally... sent out seven hundred handbills!" "same day at Munich... about two thousands handbills were sent out." "Just you and your brother cannot done this job!" "I took the fast train to Stuttgart at 27th... handbills were in a case, when I arrived..." "I threw half of them into the post-box of station." "all the left I put into the post-box at country side your brother couldn't be at Munich in Jan 20th... when we found the addresses from phonebook... he sent out an other two thousand handbill in different place?" "who was helping him?" "I wasn't at Munich who support you money?" "my father gave me one fifty each month." "my brother has pay from army" "How can you afford your life and all the handbills and postage?" "every time you trip to Ulm, it took you 15 mark" " we borrowed some money from friends - from who?" "here, up left corner..." ""E" must stand for income" " it is the backer's name after amount?" " Yes your fiancé were in?" " so he knew it!" " No!" "every time we borrow, we give a pretence." "you can ask everyone my brother and I are the only members" "have you thought about if you and your brother assume all the crime, what will happen to you?" "We know every name!" "Miss Scholl, think about it and cooperate with us!" "we will reconsider your punishment think about your poor parents and the shame you brought to them so, right now you want me... to sell out your so called partisan for my own good exposure criminal is not sellout" "my brother's classmate has nothing to do with this" "Launa" "take her away" "I am very worried about Fritz how could I write her name in my note?" " he was sold out?" " absolutely not" " he really has not found anything?" " nothing at all his loyalty is just like a solider keeps his oath to Hitler and we had fights for this many times I am always against supporting the front line because this will prolong the war and it makes him angry" " is he in Stalingrad too?" " he used to be there luckily, he was transferred to Lemberg as the last group he lived in Lazaret Doc cut off two of his fingers" "because he and his people had lain in frozen open air all day and all night for several weeks in 30¡ãF" "I really hope he can survive from the war, while not become its victim what will happen if Fritz knows you were here?" "he shall understand me" "hope so what does he look like?" "tall, brown hair a free elf and he can always make me laugh" "love, this unconditional love, is so amazing when was the last time you saw him?" "last summer, we were in Karolinensiel of Nordsee early morning, we sailed out" "and went to the beach by bike together in the evening singing, chat and talk about peace at night" "no solider, no plane and no bomb only the sea and sky" "sea breeze and our dreams" "dear God, what can I do besides confiding you there is nothing I can do but to leave you my own heart you create us, and our hearts are so tense only to be with you, I shall find peace inside" "Amon" "here you are, drink it" "it's the coffee made by authentic coffee bean for you, Miss Scholl, this also means the happiness of Deutschland, right?" " yes - and you are not like Elser put bomb in B¨¹rgerbrukeller in Munich 1939 although you chose the wrong slogan you made a peaceful way" "so why do you guys want to punish me anyway?" "because of the law!" "no law, no order!" "the law you referring used to defend people's liberty of speech before Hitler took power in 1933 but now, under his government people who deliver free speech are treated by heavy penalty or death and does order have anything to do with this?" "if we don't abide by the law what else should we abide?" " abide by the law, no matter whose law it is - that depends on your conscience what?" "this is the law this is the people" "I, as a police officer am amenable to check whether people's behavior matches the law and if it doesn't" " I have to figure out where the problem is - law can be changed" " conscience won't - what if everyone... judge right and wrong by his conscience what result would it become?" "and what if the criminals succeed in dropping the reins of government what will it be?" "unavoidably, there will be serious chaos and those so called freethinking federation, democracy, we used to have we know where that will lead us to everyone will regain his right and order if there is no Hitler, his party and... protect to autocratic personal rejection not just protect people going with the stream" "autocratic, main stream" " you are just disdainful - no, you are you consider my brother and me as criminals just because of those sheets although we've done nothing then only words tried to convince you you have privilege, you and your relatives use this privilege shamefully" "you can use our money for college during wartime with damn democracy, all I've learned is slaughter do you know who made me become a policeman?" "French who occupied Pfalz not German democracy, if there wasn't this campaign" "I was still a policeman in the countryside of Pirmasens today shameful Versailles Treaty, inflation, unemployment" "Economic crisis, our leader Adolf Hitler swept off all of this and also lead Germany to a doomed war" " it's free of charge for all of the Victims - in this heroically war you and us that you disdain and fight against both feed ourselves no matter what happens you live a better life than we do you absolutely have no need to do so actually you still said that" "our leader and Deutschland are protecting you among this, in Wittelsbacher Palais or my family with background our German soldiers are liberating Europe from money-supremacy and" "Bolschewisten, and for a wider and free Germany" "Germany's territory will not be occupied you have my words at the end of the war foreign troops will garrison people will point at us saying we didn't fight against Hitler if we win out at last after bleeding and sacrifice German people will live a richer and free life as your dream" "and at that moment, as a member of BDM what will you say?" "German people don't have that belief any more while under Hitler's rule" "If it really come true, should I say this?" " Are you a prophet?" " Yes" "Even the Church is asking the disciples to follow their lead." " Even in despair" " In Church, everyone is free" "But Hitler and Nazis will not give them other choices" "Why a young person like you will take this kind of risks for these wrong ideas" "For my own conscience" "I don't understand, with your talent you can't understand and feel right about National Socialist German" "Freedom, Honor, Wealth" "A morally responsible country, this is our faith" "Nazi in the name of freedom and honor" "Bloodshed the entire Europe" "Even this can not wake you up?" "If the German youth can not finally relieves Hitler from his power and help together make a new, better Europe then Germany will always be a shameful name" "New Europe only can be the national socialism nature" "If your leader is a lunatic" "Think about national hatred!" "at Ulm" "A Jew teacher was brought before SA-Gruppe" "Everyone was ordered to walk in front of him and spit on his face" "At that night, he is gone." "Disappeared like thousands disappeared in 1941 forced to the eastern frontline" "You believe these bullshits?" "The Jews moved away themselves" "Soldiers from eastern frontline were already talking about slaughters in the concentration camp" "Hitler wants to kill all Jews in Europe" "He was promoting this absurd idea 20 years ago How could you believe?" "Jew are different from us" "This guy will only bring us bad luck But you are only a young girl has been misled by wrong teaching" "Probably it's our own fault I feel someone like you should be a member of our Bund deutsche Maedel" "You known, when I learned" "Nazis are killing mentally impaired children with poison gas, how shocked was I?" "My mom's friends has described to me how the children from Church Welfare program were taken from the caretakers" "Taken away by trucks" "The kids were asking "Where does the truck go?"" ""Going to heaven" Caretakers answers" "So the kids got on the truck and singing." "I have the same feelings like them." "You think I am not taught well?" "These are invaluable lives You have heard from the caretakers" "They have mental patients." "Yes, I clearly know under any circumstances, nobody will be treated like a person created by God." "Nobody knows, what the soul of a mental patient is like?" "nobody knows, that innate, incredibly mature existence without body every life has it's value" "You must get used to this coming new age" "What you have said is not reality" "What I said is related to reality and custom" " Relate to Moral God" " God doesn't exist" "You believe what your brother did is right?" "You are just an accomplice It's not like that?" "Should we write down like this" "No, Mr. Mohr Because it is not the truth" "You known, I have a son." "He is one year younger than you" "He sometimes has some weird crazy ideas But now he is in eastern frontline" "Because he knows he must perform his duty." "Mr. Mohr, do you believe out final victory?" "Ms. Scholl, if you think about everything you wouldn't involved in these activities" "This is about your life" "Here." "This is what I wrote" "According to our questioning Below conclusions were drawn" "Your brother's and your Behavior" "In wartime, it is a crime again the Nazi Party" "Especially in the eyes of tough fighting army from the eastern frontline" "You must face severest punishment." "but in my eyes confession is not equal to betrayal" "Maybe like this, I rather say." "Not mine but your world view is flawed" "Like before, same viewpoint I have done what is right for my people" "I have no regrets I will solely take all responsibility for all consequences" "notekeeper, keep the record." "yes." "like boss know, we are done shortly" "If we swear to give up our ideal Mohr will make a bridge for us with gold" " Really?" " I wouldn't take that risk" "Why not?" "Sophie, you are so young you have to live for your ideal and yourself for your family For god's sake, take his help" "There is no way back" "Air Raid Alert" "Get down, don't stand beside the windows get down on the ground is the safest" "Get down" "Won't take long we are free" "The one just took is not Schmorell" "It is Christoph Probst" "Same, Treason" "I am really sorry I thought" "He has 3 kids" "the youngest was just born." "His wife got puerperal fever" "Ms. Scholl, you must go see litigant now" "Hurry" "This is my litigation your case will be judged at Munich Civil Court by a senior judge" "I have submitted court order" " is it going to be tomorrow?" " no one wants to see it delayed" "treason, cause damage to nuclear power station" "it will be a public hearing" "what a glorious day" "I sincerely pray to you to call upon you even if you might not know anything about this I am still hoping to get some comfort from you" "I pray to you" "My Lord, please don't abundant me My dear father, please do not abundant me" "Amen" "My name is Klein, I am your lawyer appointed by the court have you seen the court order?" " I have read it - any questions?" "what would happen to my parents who live in Ulm" "Please it will be considered in a separate case" "I just want to know what would happen to them aren't you my lawyer?" "the way you said it as if I was responsible for the state that you are in" "I am entitled to know what would happen to my family and you know that do you think you have right to make a request?" "whatever comes to my older brother I don't want a mild sentence from your angle, I am just guilty as he is is there anything more that you wish to add?" " no - regarding your brother and you, you are saying you don't actually want to be a German Citizen are you sure about that?" "the chairman of the people's court will arrive here from Berlin tomorrow he will make you forget about this non-sense you just said, young lady he will make you and your older brother feel sorry for what you did" "open the door" " any questions?" " no no, see you in court tomorrow" "what a coward" "Freisler will be suing both of you tomorrow he used to an USSR police officer he has to prove his loyalty" "our father used to say:" "I hope you can live forever in honesty and freedom however difficult the circumstance it may be" "will there be people from the public?" "Mmm, there will be It is a show, to warn others then Freisler will surely mention leaflets in front the whole crowd everyone is going to listen to our view the students definitely will maybe a riot, if they know this was only because of a few leaflets" "the result will be an embarrassment for them the worst scenario would be that everyone gets shot in 99 days" "my older brother once said that we need to be tough and yet compassionate" "I once dreamed that" "I was holding a child in my chest who wore a long white skirt" "I could feel her warmth..." "suddenly, the earth shook the ice beneath our feet cracked" "I began to slip, then I saw the child luckily I had enough time to move her to a safer ground" "I felt, but I felt liberated and relaxed the long white skirted child is our ideal it survived" " Scholl, stop it - she should have worn appropriate cloth" "thank you" " let God be with you, Sophie - let God be with you, Elser thank you so much" " how are you?" " and yourself?" "be quiet, you only answer when are you are asked" " you must fight for yourself - be quiet please" " hell Hitler - hell Hitler" "I hereof announce, the No. 1 court of people opens the case for" "Hans Fritz Scholl, Sophie Magdalena Scholl from Munich and Christoph Hermann Probst from Aldrans to cause damage to nuclear power station and to protect enemies" "Probst Christoph" "you are married with 3 children?" "yes, 2 and a half, 1 and 3 months and 4 weeks old regardless your irresponsible behavior how are you suppose" " to bring your children up to be real Germans" " I am a good father and and what?" "have no Political ambition he is saying he does not have any Political ambitions, that almost made me laugh" "is this your handwriting" " yes - it was not because of benefit from a socialist government it was a nation's social politics gave you the chance to have your family and stopped Scholl's request to write an article based on this Stalingrad female hero's story" "to portrait our leaders as military exploiters so that she will surrender yes, it was just a thought the word "just" does not exist when German people have to fight to survive but I had to admit, I was really depressed at the time when I wrote this" "really?" "you were depressed at the time?" "was that the reason?" "the thought went into my head when I was really depressed the war, my wife's fever after giving birth all of these..." "Aha, listen everyone this will not help you to escape from your crime" "I had denied it in writing yesterday plus, I need to clarify that I did not use finance or any other way to spread rumors manipulate anyone" " what my true intention was - yes, we have heard you said you were a manipulated idiot so you can be spared" "Mr. Chairman, my children need their father" "German children do not need a father like you you are not worthy, Probst" " defendant, do you have any other questions?" " no, Mr. chairman bring him down" "Scholl, Hans" " You have read medicine since 1939?" " yes and still thankful for this socialist government giving you the chance to have" " benefit of 8 terms of study - it is 8 terms you spent this nation's money like a parasite during the time, you were serving at a mobile war medical unit and worked as a medical staff on the front line between July and November 1942?" "it was also true but I want to say is that" " please be quiet before I ask you" " I want to say that I am not a parasite shut your mouth or I will have you removed from this court to serve as a soldier was a duty from the medicine school oh, we will talk about duty" "as an university student, you have the duty to lead an example life and you were provided with benefit from the Kingdom but this did not stop you at the beginning of summer 1942 giving out 4 "white rose" leaflets" "to spread the negative rumor that German will one day be defeated in the war and used any possible chances to change German people's way of life in a socialist society" " and to destroy their government - it is outrages" " all lies - traitors" "Scholl you also have harbored your sister" " it was my decision - did I ask you, defendant?" " I need to speak out the truth - your view will not influence our judgment did you write this leaflet?" "did you believe that German people will only survive through selling out their own country?" " the way will not - answer yes or no, it is not a difficult question we do not have a chance to fight against the US, the UK and the USSR at the same time look at the map for yourself" "Hitler is leading Germans to a sheer hell he can't win this war, he is only extending the time of suffering did you think German's fighting spirit was no match for theirs you promote the enemy will lead more German casualties" "the only way to stop more casualties is to win it quickly" " win the war?" "how?" " to stop more casualties you think you alone can decide the outcome of the war?" "what German wants is just a war" "German's blood had bled dry, they want peach, Hitler and his supporters will be responsible for the genocide this far excided just a war every one knows that" " everyone?" " who are you talking about?" "you are a mad dog how dear you trying to bite in a high court many of audience here as well as myself went to the war in the east" "but you did not" "I have seen with my own eyes the bloodshed in Poland and USSR staring at the women and children" " killed by German soldiers - and you naively thank that people here will believe your non-sense if Hitler and yourself are not afraid of our thoughts" " then we will stand here today - shut your mouth what a shameless liar you are an idiot, a traitor case closed" " any more questions?" " no" " I have no further question, Mr. chairman" " Scholl Hans, get back to your seat" "Sophie Scholl" "you have giving out leaflets in university" " aren't you ashamed of what you have done - no, I don't feel so giving out leaflets in university is that all?" "no, I wanted to have speak louder, we can not hear you" "I wanted to give out the last lot of leaflets" " so, our ideal can be quickly..." " ideal?" "you call this filthy your ideal so dumb, you are not worthy being a German University student" " we fight with our words - so you wrote" "¡°Nazi will ruin your lives¡± have a look at yourself and look at the low class people where did you get the paper to make the leaflets?" " bought from university - oh, from university you have stolen them while there is a shortage of paper this is treason my brother and I tried to use these leaflets to awaken German people to stop the blood shed against the Jews" "and not to wait for the other 3 countries to finish us off do we want to be expelled from the world hated by all the nations?" "a dominating nation will not care about this your dominating nation wants peace" "to find pride in peach it wants God, Conscience and compassion and what is your point?" "war will bring German victory it will become stronger, more pure after the war what we said and wrote was also believed by many" " they just do not dare to say it - you can shut your mouth then" " do you have more questions to ask me?" " no" "session finished, take her away" "we will now sum up the defendant." "Statements" " I am" " Please ask them to leave the court" "I am Robert Scholl, the father of two of the defendants" " I want to clarify a few points" " I did not permit you to do so" " get out, take him out - this is about justice" "Silence!" "Now for your last statement defendants, rise please!" " Probst?" " I beg you to spare me, for the sake of my children" "I admit and repent everything I have done" "And you, Scholl?" "I beg you, your honor." "Spare this man, and punish me instead." "If you have nothing to say in your own behalf, be silent!" "Sophia Scholl?" "Soon, you shall stand where we are standing right now." "Every decent human being in this room is indignant because of what you have said" "In name of the German people" "The following charges against Hans Fritz Scholl from Munich" "Sophia Magdalena Scholl from Munich..." "And Christoph Hermann Probst from Aldrans... are recognized by the 1. senate of the supreme court... on February 221943:" "The defendants have been sending out flyers during the war, in order to sabotage the Arms production and to overthrow the National Social way of life of our people" "To propagandize dangerous ideas and to disgrace our leader" "By doing so helped the enemies of this country, and demoralized our troops." "Therefore you are sentenced to death." "You are deprived of any rights as citizen of this country" "You will cover the expense of this trial" "Your terror will be over soon" "Today you hang us, and tomorrow it will be your turn" "Take them away!" " Heil Hitler!" " Heil Hitler!" "This way!" "If you have anything to say before your execution..." "Please make it short, Ms. Scholl." "It is today?" "I was told, everybody has 99 days..." "You should start writing." "Come, somebody is here to see you" "See me?" "Please don't be afraid" "Given the choice, I would still do the same thing" "You did everything well, I am proud of you" "My little girl" "Mama..." "How you stand here right before me, brave and steadfast." "Now, you will never again come in through our door." "We shall meet again in the eternity" "Go, Sophie." "Jesus..." "Yes, Mother, you too..." "Ms. Scholl, please" "I have just said farewell to my parents" "They will understand" "Come with me, please" "Ms. Scholl, my name is Alt." "I am the priest in this prison" "God, oh almighty father make this earth fruitful" "So the seeds you sow do not fall in vain" "Let hope grow, oh my creator, for those who will only see it for the last time" " Amen." " Amen." "I beg you to give me the blessing of God" "God the father gives you his blessing, for you are created by his own image" "God the son gives you his blessing, for his suffering and death have saved you" "God the holy spirit gives you his blessing for he has taken you to his sacred temple" "Oh, all mighty God Have mercy in your judgment and grant you, the eternal life" " Amen" " Amen" "No one's love is greater than those who sacrifice their own life for their friends" "God is with you" "This is against the regulation, but..." "Please hurry" "Thanks" "It is not in vain." "Ms. Scholl." "The sun is still bright in the sky" "Sophia Magdalena Scholl" "The national attorney general has decided on 22.2.1943, that no pardon will be granted." "So the justice shall run like a river" "It is 17:00 The death sentence is to be carried out" "Long live the Freedom!" "The 6th flyer from the "White Rose" was brought by Helmuth von Moltke through Scandinavia to England Millions of copies were... air dropped by the allied planes over Germany in 1943" "The title is:" "A German flyer," "Manifest of Munich students"