1 00:00:39,772 --> 00:00:44,072 Subtitles: Kronzky 2 00:00:49,247 --> 00:00:54,162 - 3 00:00:54,247 --> 00:00:55,965 - 4 00:00:56,047 --> 00:00:59,562 - 5 00:00:59,647 --> 00:01:02,241 - 6 00:01:02,327 --> 00:01:05,683 - 7 00:01:05,887 --> 00:01:11,166 - 8 00:01:11,247 --> 00:01:15,957 - 9 00:01:16,607 --> 00:01:20,805 Gisela, I have to leave - What are you doing? 10 00:01:33,647 --> 00:01:35,877 Gisela! - Oh, I see. 11 00:01:36,767 --> 00:01:38,086 Come on, let's go. 12 00:01:44,687 --> 00:01:47,406 Ok, meet you at the English Park tomorrow at noon. In front the lake cabin? 13 00:01:47,487 --> 00:01:51,605 Yes, Hans really should give me a call. - I'll remind him. 14 00:01:51,687 --> 00:01:55,919 - Has he calmed down again? - You shouldn't have yelled at him like that. 15 00:01:57,367 --> 00:01:59,562 But it'll be ok. 16 00:02:36,007 --> 00:02:40,956 Finally, it was about time. Hurry, let's go. 17 00:02:45,167 --> 00:02:48,364 Is this all? That's it. The rest hasn't arrived yet... 18 00:03:02,047 --> 00:03:05,756 "Germans are shocked by soliders who fell into the abyss of death at Stalingrad 19 00:03:05,847 --> 00:03:10,045 330,000 fellowmen are forced to death and extermination step by step 20 00:03:10,127 --> 00:03:13,244 by the great genius of our strategists, meaninglessly and irresponsibly." 21 00:03:13,327 --> 00:03:17,240 Little Sophie, I'm sure Willi would appreciate it if you could help him. 22 00:03:42,527 --> 00:03:46,566 Here are the stamps. And the address list. 23 00:03:47,767 --> 00:03:49,041 Thanks. 24 00:03:59,047 --> 00:04:00,844 What happens with the rest? 25 00:04:11,567 --> 00:04:13,876 I'll go deliver them at the university tomorrow. 26 00:04:19,247 --> 00:04:22,478 Are you crazy? - Willi, at the students uprising at the German Museum recently, 27 00:04:22,567 --> 00:04:26,355 it nearly happened. - Gestapo has been on ground alert ever since. 28 00:04:26,447 --> 00:04:29,166 Hans... And our slogans are everywhere! 29 00:04:29,247 --> 00:04:31,841 Hans, we'll hide the rest under the boards until we get new envelopes. 30 00:04:31,927 --> 00:04:34,395 No need. There is nothing left. Lack of paper. 31 00:04:34,487 --> 00:04:37,923 It's already pretty dangerous to write slogans on walls at night... 32 00:04:38,487 --> 00:04:42,036 But handing out flyers at campus in the middle of the day... Are you crazy? 33 00:04:42,127 --> 00:04:45,244 We have to do somethign now! We'lll get this city moving! 34 00:04:45,327 --> 00:04:48,160 Especially now, after Stalingrad, the whole campus is full of snitches! 35 00:04:48,247 --> 00:04:49,885 If the Bolshevists come now, they'll get all those wimps... 36 00:04:49,967 --> 00:04:52,162 ...all at once. - If I were you if wouldn't be sure 37 00:04:52,247 --> 00:04:54,556 if having the Soviets come before the Americans is such a good thing. 38 00:04:54,847 --> 00:05:00,080 Don't you hate the Bolshevist the most? Hans, it is madness! 39 00:05:00,487 --> 00:05:02,205 Don't do it! 40 00:05:02,647 --> 00:05:04,956 I'll go when they are having classes, nobody will be in the hall... 41 00:05:05,047 --> 00:05:07,766 I'll be out right away. In from the front, out the back. 42 00:05:07,847 --> 00:05:10,361 - It's too dangerous! - Willi... 43 00:05:11,047 --> 00:05:13,163 I will take full responsiblity. 44 00:05:14,647 --> 00:05:15,966 It'll be just me. 45 00:05:18,447 --> 00:05:21,041 You are going to walk through Schwabing with a big suitcase? 46 00:05:22,127 --> 00:05:23,526 I'll take that. 47 00:05:25,567 --> 00:05:27,478 Hans, I don't think we should have Sophie... 48 00:05:27,567 --> 00:05:30,240 If we are checked, it'll be easier with a woman. 49 00:05:32,887 --> 00:05:34,479 She is right. 50 00:05:36,927 --> 00:05:39,760 Alright, let's go then. 51 00:05:52,647 --> 00:05:54,444 Alex, meet me in my place at twelve tomorrow. 52 00:05:59,367 --> 00:06:02,803 So tomorrow? Right away? - The Nazis won't wait. 53 00:06:37,807 --> 00:06:39,001 Thanks. 54 00:06:41,927 --> 00:06:43,599 Don't work too late. 55 00:06:43,687 --> 00:06:45,723 - Good night. - Good night. 56 00:07:16,287 --> 00:07:20,724 Dear Lisa, I'm listening to Schubert's Trout Quintet. 57 00:07:20,807 --> 00:07:24,925 I feel Schubert's inspriation is flowing in the air. 58 00:07:25,207 --> 00:07:29,564 I can hear the jubilations of the birds and the whole creation. 59 00:07:30,047 --> 00:07:34,359 The piano repeats the same theme, like a clear crystal creek 60 00:07:35,607 --> 00:07:40,123 Oh, they make me feel enchanted. Wish I could hear from you soon. 61 00:07:41,007 --> 00:07:43,475 Best wishes Yours, Sophie 62 00:08:04,287 --> 00:08:08,565 You think mom might still have some jam? You only get turnip sirup with food stamps now. 63 00:08:16,927 --> 00:08:18,599 Inconspicuous enough? 64 00:08:27,807 --> 00:08:30,719 Today there's be sparks flying at the campus. - Yes 65 00:09:53,207 --> 00:09:54,401 Morning! 66 00:09:55,167 --> 00:09:58,842 Morning. - We're going to the neurology clinic. You want to come along? 67 00:09:59,367 --> 00:10:02,643 Sophie is going to Ulm. I will be there soon, too. - Come now. 68 00:12:00,407 --> 00:12:04,878 Get out, hurry! Come on, hurry up! 69 00:12:10,847 --> 00:12:13,361 There are still some in the case, Hans. - What? 70 00:12:19,487 --> 00:12:22,320 No one's upstairs, wait a second. - I'm coming along. 71 00:13:16,367 --> 00:13:18,358 Freeze! Stop! 72 00:13:20,247 --> 00:13:24,638 Stop right now! You there...Stop right now! 73 00:13:24,767 --> 00:13:28,840 You are under arrest! Stop, damnit! - What's wrong? 74 00:13:28,967 --> 00:13:32,243 You are under arrest! That's ridiculous, you can't just arrest us! 75 00:13:32,367 --> 00:13:35,643 You were the only people upstairs. Come here! - We were at the Psychology Department. 76 00:13:35,727 --> 00:13:38,002 - You were handing out flyers! - Nonsense! 77 00:13:38,087 --> 00:13:42,000 Let him go! I threw down those flyers. 78 00:13:42,087 --> 00:13:46,877 I'm going to report you. You come with me, both of you! 79 00:13:48,127 --> 00:13:52,325 Believe me, even in my college you cannot get away with stuff like that. 80 00:13:53,327 --> 00:13:55,238 "Stunned - stand the German peoples before their downfall..." 81 00:13:55,327 --> 00:13:57,636 Come in! 82 00:14:04,447 --> 00:14:06,802 That many? Unbelievable! 83 00:14:06,887 --> 00:14:08,400 Are those all? - Yes! 84 00:14:08,647 --> 00:14:09,796 You can go now! 85 00:14:10,007 --> 00:14:12,316 Schmid, issue a report. 86 00:14:13,447 --> 00:14:15,881 We will catch them all. 87 00:14:16,847 --> 00:14:20,283 There...there This student got something... 88 00:14:21,847 --> 00:14:25,237 Give it to me! Look, another flyer. 89 00:14:25,327 --> 00:14:28,285 Give it to me! Or you want me to use force? 90 00:14:38,367 --> 00:14:41,439 That's all part of it. 91 00:14:49,887 --> 00:14:53,243 Mohr, national police. Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler. 92 00:14:53,367 --> 00:14:55,562 These two are under temporary arrest... 93 00:14:55,647 --> 00:14:59,196 And this is the pamphlet. - I got those two... 94 00:15:09,767 --> 00:15:11,883 Do you have any ID? 95 00:15:34,927 --> 00:15:38,283 Ms. Sophia Magdalena Scholl? - Yes. 96 00:15:40,607 --> 00:15:43,724 Mr. Hans Fritz Scholl? - Yes. 97 00:15:44,087 --> 00:15:46,362 Brother and sister? - Yes. 98 00:15:48,087 --> 00:15:50,476 The weaker sex. 99 00:15:52,847 --> 00:15:54,644 21 years old... 100 00:15:57,887 --> 00:16:00,162 Is that supposed to be the resistance against the German Reich that... 101 00:16:00,287 --> 00:16:02,084 is controlling all of Europe? 102 00:16:02,167 --> 00:16:05,443 The young man tried to destroy these papers in my presence. 103 00:16:05,527 --> 00:16:08,087 Some unknown classmate gave them to me. 104 00:16:08,167 --> 00:16:10,761 I destroyed them because I didn't want to get into trouble. 105 00:16:14,047 --> 00:16:16,959 Is this your suitcase? - Yes, it's mine. 106 00:16:18,687 --> 00:16:20,040 Take him away! 107 00:16:25,647 --> 00:16:29,720 I've given the order to close off the college for now. 108 00:16:30,007 --> 00:16:33,124 Not even teachers or other personnal are allowed to leave. 109 00:16:33,207 --> 00:16:35,846 Sure! I will certainly stay too. 110 00:16:48,487 --> 00:16:51,160 Go back, and tell Alex not to wait for me. - Quiet! 111 00:18:10,327 --> 00:18:13,399 Scholl, Hans, get into Mahler's room for interrogation! 112 00:18:16,087 --> 00:18:17,884 Hurry up, miss! 113 00:18:19,327 --> 00:18:20,840 Come here now! 114 00:18:22,807 --> 00:18:24,399 Unlock the cuffs! 115 00:18:26,047 --> 00:18:27,241 Thanks. 116 00:19:15,687 --> 00:19:17,120 Let's get going. 117 00:19:32,567 --> 00:19:34,046 Sit down. 118 00:19:41,047 --> 00:19:44,960 Sophia Magdalena Scholl, from Ulm, 119 00:19:45,647 --> 00:19:49,003 born on May 9, 1921 in Forchtenberg. 120 00:19:49,087 --> 00:19:52,238 Protestant. - Father? 121 00:19:52,807 --> 00:19:55,844 Robert Scholl, mayor of Forchtenberg. 122 00:19:55,967 --> 00:20:00,358 You completed your nursing education? - Yes. 123 00:20:01,007 --> 00:20:04,886 Still with a second address in Munich, Franz-Joseph St. #13, 124 00:20:04,967 --> 00:20:07,561 - Summerhouse, landlord Schmidt? - Yes. 125 00:20:07,647 --> 00:20:10,366 Any criminal record? - No. 126 00:20:11,967 --> 00:20:14,435 You admitted to the janitor that it was you... 127 00:20:14,527 --> 00:20:17,917 who threw the flyers from the balcony. 128 00:20:18,007 --> 00:20:20,077 They were lying on the marble handrail. 129 00:20:20,487 --> 00:20:23,001 I pushed them over when I passed by. 130 00:20:24,407 --> 00:20:25,681 Why? 131 00:20:25,767 --> 00:20:28,076 Such pranks are my nature. 132 00:20:28,287 --> 00:20:31,404 I admitted it then and there and I knew ... 133 00:20:31,487 --> 00:20:34,843 I made a stupid mistake when I pushed them over. 134 00:20:36,367 --> 00:20:39,245 I am very sorry now, but I guess it's too late. 135 00:20:40,327 --> 00:20:45,447 Miss Scholl, you spread flyers in college, 136 00:20:45,527 --> 00:20:48,280 in violation of the special war laws. 137 00:20:48,367 --> 00:20:52,201 Do you know what the punishment for treason and collaboration is? 138 00:20:54,847 --> 00:20:59,637 I don't have anything to do with that. - Imprisonment, labour camp... 139 00:21:00,047 --> 00:21:03,676 or execution. - I really didn't have anything to do with that. 140 00:21:21,727 --> 00:21:25,197 Cigarettes? - No, thanks. 141 00:21:26,447 --> 00:21:30,201 But you do smoke, right? - Occasionally. 142 00:22:01,247 --> 00:22:03,158 They're a perfect fit. 143 00:22:04,567 --> 00:22:05,966 Just coincidence. 144 00:22:14,007 --> 00:22:17,158 Why did you bring an empty case to school? 145 00:22:17,727 --> 00:22:20,002 I wanted to go to Ulm, to pick up the clothes 146 00:22:20,087 --> 00:22:23,796 that I brought to my mother last week. - To Ulm? 147 00:22:23,887 --> 00:22:27,197 That far? In the middle of the week? 148 00:22:27,647 --> 00:22:29,842 Yes - Just for some clothes? 149 00:22:31,967 --> 00:22:35,482 No, not just. I also want to visit a friend. She just had a baby. 150 00:22:36,407 --> 00:22:39,638 Also, my mother is sick. - But why in the middle of the week? 151 00:22:39,727 --> 00:22:42,924 But you are having classes! You seem to be in quite a hurry. 152 00:22:43,287 --> 00:22:46,040 Because my friend suggested going to Hamburg, 153 00:22:46,127 --> 00:22:47,924 so I want to get back before the weekend. 154 00:22:48,927 --> 00:22:52,044 I planed to take the 12:48 express train. 155 00:22:54,367 --> 00:22:56,835 I already made an appointment with my sister's friend at the Holzkirchner station. 156 00:22:56,927 --> 00:22:58,645 You can ask him. 157 00:23:01,567 --> 00:23:03,956 His name? - Otto Aicher. 158 00:23:05,567 --> 00:23:11,119 He arrived from Solln at 11:30... 11:30 in Munich. 159 00:23:11,207 --> 00:23:13,880 Aicher, with an "e"? - With "a - i" 160 00:23:16,727 --> 00:23:19,116 Didn't you have dirty clothes for Ulm? 161 00:23:19,767 --> 00:23:22,440 No, I wash my own small clothes. 162 00:23:22,567 --> 00:23:25,035 And large pieces I didn't have any yet. 163 00:23:30,767 --> 00:23:34,237 So, it means you don't need any clean clothes yet? 164 00:23:35,007 --> 00:23:36,963 and you just told me 165 00:23:37,047 --> 00:23:40,119 that you expressly took an empty suitcase home to get clean clothes? 166 00:23:40,207 --> 00:23:43,517 I wanted to be prepared for the next weeks, since I was in Ulm anyway. 167 00:23:45,607 --> 00:23:49,202 So, if you wanted to go back to Ulm, why were you still at school? 168 00:23:49,447 --> 00:23:52,962 I had an appointment with a friend. Her name is Gisela Schertling 169 00:23:53,047 --> 00:23:56,517 We planned to have lunch together in the cabin at English Garden at noon. 170 00:23:56,607 --> 00:23:58,723 Even though you wanted to go to Ulm? 171 00:24:00,807 --> 00:24:03,082 I changed my mind last night... 172 00:24:03,167 --> 00:24:06,159 I came back to school to cancel my appointment with Gisela. 173 00:24:36,527 --> 00:24:39,917 Why did your brother accompany you to school? 174 00:24:40,367 --> 00:24:42,961 since you only came to cancel the appointment? 175 00:24:43,127 --> 00:24:47,166 Hans and I often go to school together. He wanted to go to the neurological clinic. 176 00:24:50,207 --> 00:24:54,086 The janitor said you were on the 2nd floor balcony at about 11 o'clock. 177 00:24:54,927 --> 00:24:58,556 What were you doing there? - We were on the way to Gisela. 178 00:24:58,647 --> 00:25:02,526 She was in Prof. Huber's introductory philosophy class. 179 00:25:02,847 --> 00:25:06,556 But that's on the 1st floor. - Yes, we were there 10 minutes early, 180 00:25:06,647 --> 00:25:09,445 so I showed my brother around at the psychology department. 181 00:25:09,567 --> 00:25:13,242 I often have classes on the 2nd floor. 182 00:25:13,327 --> 00:25:15,443 And where did you see the flyers? 183 00:25:15,727 --> 00:25:18,480 I saw them everywhere on the ground, if that's what you mean. 184 00:25:18,567 --> 00:25:21,843 And you didn't even read them? - Yes, I did, but only at a glance. 185 00:25:23,607 --> 00:25:26,758 My brother was even joking about them. - A political joke? 186 00:25:26,847 --> 00:25:32,160 No, just that it's a waste of paper. He's as unpolitical as me. 187 00:25:40,367 --> 00:25:43,837 During the uprising of the female students at the Germany Museum, 188 00:25:43,927 --> 00:25:45,838 when the district principal was holding a speech, 189 00:25:46,847 --> 00:25:48,360 were you there? 190 00:25:48,887 --> 00:25:50,161 No. 191 00:25:50,487 --> 00:25:55,003 Attendance was mandatory. - I stay out of politics. 192 00:25:55,247 --> 00:25:57,636 What do you think of the speech, given by district principal 193 00:25:57,767 --> 00:26:00,042 when he mentioned... 194 00:26:00,367 --> 00:26:02,756 that girls should rather have give birth to babies, for the Führer, 195 00:26:02,847 --> 00:26:06,362 instead of fooling around at college. 196 00:26:06,487 --> 00:26:10,196 He even said that the ugly ones could marry to his assistents. 197 00:26:11,367 --> 00:26:13,005 That's a matter of taste. 198 00:26:16,607 --> 00:26:19,440 The circumstances under which you were found at the university 199 00:26:19,527 --> 00:26:22,758 already make you a suspect. I seriously advise you 200 00:26:22,847 --> 00:26:26,476 to tell me the full truth right now, independent of any side effects this might have. 201 00:26:27,767 --> 00:26:31,043 I deny to have any connection with these leaflets. 202 00:26:31,167 --> 00:26:35,445 Except the joke I made. I understand that 203 00:26:35,567 --> 00:26:38,206 we are under suspicion until the real culprits are found. 204 00:26:38,287 --> 00:26:43,042 - But my brother and I really have nothing to do with this. 205 00:26:43,167 --> 00:26:46,603 Do you really think you can hide your true feelings from me? 206 00:26:47,847 --> 00:26:50,042 All I told you is the truth. 207 00:27:29,367 --> 00:27:32,006 Mrs Scholl, my colleagues did not find any traces of the flyers... 208 00:27:32,127 --> 00:27:36,086 in your suitcase. And your brother confirmed your statements during his interrogations. 209 00:27:40,567 --> 00:27:41,795 Reliefed? 210 00:27:42,967 --> 00:27:45,037 I wasn't worried. 211 00:27:49,967 --> 00:27:51,958 Have the transcriber come in. 212 00:27:55,167 --> 00:27:58,284 I will let her to record my statement. You have to listen carefully... 213 00:27:58,407 --> 00:28:02,161 If there is any conflict with your statement you must tell me right away. 214 00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:05,484 Do you understand, Mrs Scholl? - Yes. 215 00:28:05,607 --> 00:28:08,485 Even though you will be placed under temporary arrest, 216 00:28:08,607 --> 00:28:10,996 but... it depends... 217 00:28:11,567 --> 00:28:15,685 Maybe you still can go to Ulm tonight. 218 00:28:19,687 --> 00:28:20,517 You're done? 219 00:28:31,047 --> 00:28:33,607 Metternich! Release papers. Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler. 220 00:28:33,727 --> 00:28:35,240 Mr. Schürmer! Come along! 221 00:28:42,207 --> 00:28:45,165 You students think you can be here, and keep us busy 222 00:28:45,247 --> 00:28:46,566 with your phantasies. 223 00:28:46,727 --> 00:28:50,766 Please hand over your jewellery. Your watch. 224 00:28:50,847 --> 00:28:53,645 (Radio) ...we already made up our mind to defend our lives by any means. 225 00:28:53,767 --> 00:28:58,636 ...no matter whether the rest of the world 226 00:28:58,767 --> 00:29:01,440 understand the necessity of this war or not - Necklace with pendant. 227 00:29:02,367 --> 00:29:06,997 ...The time for a total war has come... 228 00:29:07,127 --> 00:29:10,597 Follow me. 229 00:29:12,407 --> 00:29:16,446 Let us say farewell to fear and bourgouis squeamishness, 230 00:29:16,527 --> 00:29:18,563 who, in this fight with fate... 231 00:29:18,647 --> 00:29:21,445 still live by the rule Clean my back, 232 00:29:21,527 --> 00:29:24,917 but don't get me wet! - Please take off you clothes and give them to me. 233 00:29:32,967 --> 00:29:34,844 There is enormous danger. 234 00:29:34,967 --> 00:29:37,959 We must put into huge effort... 235 00:29:38,047 --> 00:29:41,596 If you still have anything illegal, give it to me, and I'll throw it down the toilet. 236 00:29:42,007 --> 00:29:45,204 I am a prisoner too. Now, that time is coming... 237 00:29:45,327 --> 00:29:46,999 I have nothing. 238 00:29:47,407 --> 00:29:50,399 ...it's time to take off the gloves! 239 00:30:04,847 --> 00:30:07,441 OK, we're here. 240 00:30:07,527 --> 00:30:10,758 ... will thank us on his knees that we have taken him on 241 00:30:11,687 --> 00:30:14,759 Ladies, get in, hurry, hurry. I want to listen to the speech! 242 00:30:37,167 --> 00:30:39,203 Have you heard anything about my brother? 243 00:30:39,327 --> 00:30:42,205 Your brother is already done. He is waiting with other men upstairs. 244 00:30:42,327 --> 00:30:45,000 You are the main suspect right now since you had the large suitcase... 245 00:30:45,127 --> 00:30:49,359 and you threw down the leaflets. Do not admit anything! 246 00:30:49,687 --> 00:30:51,678 There's nothing to admit. 247 00:31:00,047 --> 00:31:03,722 How long have you been here? - One year and five days. 248 00:31:04,047 --> 00:31:08,040 They caught one of my letters, with Ludwig-Thoma quotes critical of Hitler 249 00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:12,516 Even though, you still work for those people? - They make me to do this. 250 00:31:15,647 --> 00:31:18,081 The reason I am here is to prevent you to kill yourself... 251 00:31:27,967 --> 00:31:31,198 Why are you against the Nazis? - My brother and I are Communists, 252 00:31:31,287 --> 00:31:33,437 even though my brother has a senior position in an insurance company. 253 00:31:33,567 --> 00:31:36,161 But I admire the selfless help among the Communists. 254 00:31:36,247 --> 00:31:37,965 People have to do something. 255 00:31:50,927 --> 00:31:52,997 Scholl, Sophia. Come with me! 256 00:31:54,807 --> 00:31:59,517 I hope, we'll never see each other. Good luck! - You too, good luck! 257 00:32:08,167 --> 00:32:09,566 Wait here. 258 00:32:15,567 --> 00:32:20,038 OK, Miss, here are your release papers. You were lucky this time. 259 00:32:46,927 --> 00:32:48,201 Admissions. 260 00:32:52,527 --> 00:32:53,721 Understood! 261 00:32:55,207 --> 00:32:57,277 Follow me. Follow me! 262 00:33:05,687 --> 00:33:07,678 You can take off your coat. 263 00:33:20,287 --> 00:33:21,800 Sit down. 264 00:33:35,047 --> 00:33:38,278 Your father was put into jail for 6 weeks because he called our leader... 265 00:33:38,407 --> 00:33:40,875 "God's punishment for humans". 266 00:33:41,887 --> 00:33:44,355 He was arrested for the crime of treason, 267 00:33:44,687 --> 00:33:47,406 and his professional license was revoked. 268 00:33:48,167 --> 00:33:51,762 I want to know what your father thought of you... 269 00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:54,802 joining the Hitler Youth? 270 00:33:54,927 --> 00:33:57,600 My dad never influenced our political preferences. 271 00:33:58,887 --> 00:34:04,678 Typical democrat! Why did you join the Hitler Youth? 272 00:34:04,807 --> 00:34:07,162 Because I had heard that Hitler will bring our nation glory, 273 00:34:07,287 --> 00:34:11,485 good luck and fortune, and that everyone will have a job and bread. 274 00:34:11,607 --> 00:34:14,326 That everybody will enjoy freedom and happiness. 275 00:34:20,847 --> 00:34:24,556 You are single? - I am engaged. 276 00:34:25,207 --> 00:34:29,883 With Fritz Hartnagel He is a commander on the Eastern front. 277 00:34:30,727 --> 00:34:34,322 Stalingrad? - Yes. 278 00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:39,805 When was the last time you saw each other? - More than half year ago. 279 00:35:15,087 --> 00:35:16,884 Have you seen this gun before? 280 00:35:18,767 --> 00:35:22,646 My brother had a gun like this He was sergeant in the army. 281 00:35:22,767 --> 00:35:25,645 Why do you have 190 bullets in your drawer? 282 00:35:25,727 --> 00:35:29,561 9mm bullets? - They are also my brother's. 283 00:35:29,687 --> 00:35:32,759 When was the last time you bought stamps? 284 00:35:34,647 --> 00:35:37,445 About two weeks ago. - Where, and how many? 285 00:35:38,567 --> 00:35:41,206 A the post office #23 on Leopold street. 286 00:35:41,927 --> 00:35:45,840 Ten 12 cents. Perhaps five 6 cents. I can't remember exactly. 287 00:35:45,967 --> 00:35:48,401 No more than that? - No. 288 00:35:58,527 --> 00:36:00,404 Have you seen these stamps? 289 00:36:04,767 --> 00:36:05,961 No. 290 00:36:06,647 --> 00:36:09,684 - You've never seen them before? - No. 291 00:36:12,327 --> 00:36:15,160 We found those in your brother's room. 292 00:36:21,887 --> 00:36:24,037 Why did you never mention... 293 00:36:24,167 --> 00:36:26,442 that your brother has these quantities of stamps? 294 00:36:26,567 --> 00:36:29,206 Youwhen and where I bought stamps recently. 295 00:36:29,327 --> 00:36:33,639 140? Who of you, and what for did you need these stamps? 296 00:36:33,767 --> 00:36:36,565 What were you planning to mail out? 297 00:36:36,767 --> 00:36:38,837 Greeting to friends and relatives. We write a lot. 298 00:36:38,927 --> 00:36:41,680 So, you have seen those stamps? - I am guessing. 299 00:36:41,807 --> 00:36:44,958 You found those at my brother's place. Not mine! 300 00:36:59,607 --> 00:37:01,438 Do you own a typewriter? 301 00:37:01,847 --> 00:37:04,077 The one in my brother's room, we borrowed from the landlord. 302 00:37:04,207 --> 00:37:07,040 She lent it to us so my brother can type something. - What? 303 00:37:07,167 --> 00:37:10,204 An essay about philosophy and theology. 304 00:37:19,127 --> 00:37:22,563 Not this flyer here? - No. 305 00:37:23,727 --> 00:37:27,242 An essay about philosophy and theology like this perhaps... 306 00:37:28,767 --> 00:37:32,362 "Hitler cannot win this war, he can only prolong it." 307 00:37:32,727 --> 00:37:37,039 or "a criminal cannot give Germany victory" 308 00:37:38,167 --> 00:37:42,479 or "federalism is the future of Germany 309 00:37:42,607 --> 00:37:45,963 freedom of speech, freedom of religion." 310 00:37:49,767 --> 00:37:51,837 Hans didn't write those. 311 00:37:54,967 --> 00:37:57,003 You did? - No. 312 00:37:57,607 --> 00:38:01,566 But you believe in this kind of world order. - I don't care about politics. 313 00:38:03,607 --> 00:38:06,326 Anyway, we analyzed this typewriter, and it was used 314 00:38:06,447 --> 00:38:09,564 to write a pamphlet which was, at the beginning of this month, 315 00:38:09,687 --> 00:38:13,680 mailed to different addresses in Munich and Augsburg. 316 00:38:14,447 --> 00:38:16,324 I don't know anything about this. 317 00:38:25,647 --> 00:38:28,400 Sit down! - Watch her. 318 00:38:47,007 --> 00:38:50,158 You were there when we found this pamphlet on your brother, 319 00:38:50,287 --> 00:38:52,164 and when he tried to destroy it. 320 00:39:01,647 --> 00:39:03,558 Have you seen this paper before? 321 00:39:04,887 --> 00:39:08,357 No. - Read it, before you make any false statements. 322 00:39:12,367 --> 00:39:15,757 "200,000 Germans died, sacrified for the status... 323 00:39:15,847 --> 00:39:19,362 of a military imposter." - Does this remind you something? 324 00:39:19,447 --> 00:39:23,281 Isn't it pretty similar to other six flyers? 325 00:39:24,487 --> 00:39:26,079 And what about the handwriting? 326 00:39:27,527 --> 00:39:30,121 I dont recognize it. - Give me a break! 327 00:39:31,127 --> 00:39:34,199 The guy who wrote this is an individual named Christoph Probst, 328 00:39:34,327 --> 00:39:37,876 He is a friend of yours from lnnsbruck. We found his letters at your place. 329 00:39:38,007 --> 00:39:39,884 The exact same handwriting! 330 00:39:41,647 --> 00:39:45,640 Probst is also studying medicine. 331 00:39:48,167 --> 00:39:53,116 Loves the family and the mountains of his fatherland. 332 00:39:53,247 --> 00:39:58,401 Another privileged brat, dragging his own country into the mud, while others are dying in the war. 333 00:40:03,007 --> 00:40:05,202 Who else is involved in this, beside you, your brother and that Christoph Probst? 334 00:40:05,287 --> 00:40:07,755 Please stop accusing me! 335 00:40:07,887 --> 00:40:11,436 You withheld all this evidence from your home, 336 00:40:11,567 --> 00:40:15,276 even though I asked you to tell me the truth. 337 00:40:15,407 --> 00:40:17,318 I just only admit what I really know. 338 00:40:24,407 --> 00:40:28,320 Do you want to know what your brother said about this evidence, 339 00:40:28,927 --> 00:40:31,202 after he tried to deny it first, just like you. 340 00:40:34,447 --> 00:40:37,086 "With the military failure in the East, 341 00:40:37,207 --> 00:40:40,563 And with the enormous increase in American and British forces, 342 00:40:40,687 --> 00:40:44,396 I concluded that we could not win this war, 343 00:40:44,527 --> 00:40:48,884 and that the only way to avoid further bloodshed, 344 00:40:49,007 --> 00:40:52,602 and to keep a European community, 345 00:40:52,727 --> 00:40:57,323 lies in finding a way to shorten this war. 346 00:40:57,447 --> 00:41:02,521 I am also deeply concerned about the treatment people in the occupied zones 347 00:41:02,647 --> 00:41:06,879 This is just a political statement, not a response to you accusations 348 00:41:08,887 --> 00:41:12,596 This is just a political statemen. It doesn't have anything to do with your accusations. 349 00:41:12,727 --> 00:41:13,796 This... 350 00:41:14,927 --> 00:41:17,725 is undermining the moral of the army and treason. 351 00:41:19,647 --> 00:41:21,956 I dont believe my brother said that! 352 00:41:22,087 --> 00:41:26,239 So you think I am fabricating evidence? 353 00:41:26,367 --> 00:41:28,927 Unless my brother tells me personally that he made those statements 354 00:41:29,007 --> 00:41:30,725 I won't believe that he said that. 355 00:41:31,367 --> 00:41:34,598 You're familiar with the Eickemayer Studio, aren't you? 356 00:41:36,007 --> 00:41:37,281 Yes. 357 00:41:38,287 --> 00:41:42,326 Eickemayer is in Krakau for a few months. He gave us the key... 358 00:41:42,447 --> 00:41:45,644 to the studio to us, so we can show his pictures to his friends. 359 00:41:46,767 --> 00:41:49,281 The fingerprint on the copymachine... 360 00:41:49,367 --> 00:41:51,085 are your brother's. 361 00:41:57,287 --> 00:41:59,164 Your brother has confessed. 362 00:42:02,247 --> 00:42:05,637 He admitted to have designed, 363 00:42:08,367 --> 00:42:14,078 copied and handed out all six kinds of the flyers. 364 00:42:16,247 --> 00:42:19,762 He claims that he handed out five thousand flyers in Munich in one night. 365 00:42:30,807 --> 00:42:32,957 You lived with your brother, 366 00:42:33,047 --> 00:42:36,835 you were with him on the balcony this morning, 367 00:42:36,967 --> 00:42:40,243 and you still want me believe that you have nothing to do with this? 368 00:42:40,687 --> 00:42:43,804 You claim you didn't know what these flyers were about? Just admit it! 369 00:42:43,927 --> 00:42:48,284 You and your brother made and sent those pamphlets! 370 00:42:56,567 --> 00:42:59,240 Yes! And I am proud of it! 371 00:43:06,847 --> 00:43:09,156 What will happen to me and my brother now? 372 00:43:09,287 --> 00:43:12,199 You should have thought about this earlier, Miss Scholl. 373 00:43:14,447 --> 00:43:17,757 Will out family be arrested? - Others will decide that. 374 00:43:23,127 --> 00:43:26,642 I have to go to bathroom. - Not now. 375 00:43:27,127 --> 00:43:29,197 Who drafted these? 376 00:43:30,247 --> 00:43:33,478 Me! - You are lying again, Miss Scholl! Just a few weeks ago... 377 00:43:33,607 --> 00:43:35,996 we did a scientific analysis of the writing, 378 00:43:36,127 --> 00:43:40,006 and we are absolute sure they are done by a male. 379 00:43:40,127 --> 00:43:42,595 An intellectual. Your brother! 380 00:43:46,047 --> 00:43:50,086 Who mailed out these flyers? My brother and I. 381 00:43:58,007 --> 00:44:00,396 Excuse me, I really have to go to bathroom. 382 00:44:08,567 --> 00:44:09,841 Lohner! 383 00:44:13,247 --> 00:44:14,362 Bathroom! 384 00:44:16,047 --> 00:44:17,321 Follow me. 385 00:45:25,127 --> 00:45:27,243 Hurry! 386 00:45:45,447 --> 00:45:48,280 Open the handcuffs, it hurts! 387 00:45:49,727 --> 00:45:52,116 What are you doing with them? 388 00:45:52,807 --> 00:45:56,516 You know the colleagues, Miss Scholl? There's gonna be one after the other now... 389 00:45:56,647 --> 00:45:59,559 Next door to the left. You know the way. 390 00:46:13,527 --> 00:46:17,725 Who did this graffity: "Down with Hitler!"... 391 00:46:18,647 --> 00:46:20,365 and "Freedom"... 392 00:46:21,607 --> 00:46:26,965 and a crossed-out swastika, at Ludwig street University, 393 00:46:27,087 --> 00:46:30,363 at Marienplatz, Kaufinger street and in Schwabing? 394 00:46:30,487 --> 00:46:32,523 My brother and I made them. 395 00:46:38,767 --> 00:46:42,919 Your brother said after he got arrested: "Go back home... 396 00:46:43,047 --> 00:46:45,515 tell Alex not to wait for me". 397 00:46:47,527 --> 00:46:49,597 Schertling was right there. 398 00:46:49,727 --> 00:46:53,083 Was he telling Schmorell to run away? 399 00:46:53,367 --> 00:46:56,837 Hans had a appointment with Schmorell, he didnt want him wait for nothing. 400 00:46:56,967 --> 00:47:00,562 - You talk about your plan with Schmorell? - No 401 00:47:02,007 --> 00:47:04,726 What about Graf? - Neither. 402 00:47:17,127 --> 00:47:21,120 Why do you keep lying, Miss Scholl? - I am not lying. 403 00:48:01,887 --> 00:48:03,081 Here. 404 00:48:05,047 --> 00:48:07,561 This is your confession. Sign here. 405 00:48:48,247 --> 00:48:49,441 Lohner! 406 00:48:55,567 --> 00:48:56,761 Take her away! 407 00:49:16,767 --> 00:49:19,042 Mohr supposedly told Lohner: this kind of people... 408 00:49:19,127 --> 00:49:23,359 is what Germany needs. But we have to re-educate them. 409 00:49:24,647 --> 00:49:27,480 Maybe they will try to rebuild your world view. 410 00:49:31,687 --> 00:49:35,077 But I'm telling you, they're in for a surprise. 411 00:49:35,447 --> 00:49:39,360 Why? - Even the bosses are getting scared. 412 00:49:39,487 --> 00:49:42,081 A lot people think the invasion will happen within eight to ten weeks. 413 00:49:42,207 --> 00:49:45,358 And then it'll be quick - Germany will be liberated. 414 00:49:52,767 --> 00:49:56,476 If my mother finds out I am under arrest, 415 00:49:57,807 --> 00:50:00,162 she won't survive the shock. 416 00:50:00,927 --> 00:50:05,478 She is over 60, and has been sick for months. 417 00:50:08,887 --> 00:50:12,038 If the Gestapo comes to my house... 418 00:50:12,967 --> 00:50:15,481 she my get jailed as well... 419 00:50:18,007 --> 00:50:18,962 And your father? 420 00:50:19,087 --> 00:50:23,842 He is 10 years younger. He always gave us strength. 421 00:50:25,447 --> 00:50:27,244 Then at least she's not alone. 422 00:51:13,447 --> 00:51:14,766 Thanks. 423 00:51:17,887 --> 00:51:20,526 "We will not be silent, we are your forgotten conscience! 424 00:51:20,647 --> 00:51:23,115 The "White Rose" won't let you sleep in peace!". 425 00:51:24,247 --> 00:51:27,284 Who is "us"? - My brother wrote this. 426 00:51:27,407 --> 00:51:30,763 The last line of 4th flyers ends with: "Please copy... 427 00:51:30,887 --> 00:51:34,800 and pass around". Here, at last, is talk about resistance. 428 00:51:35,967 --> 00:51:39,516 That doesn't sound like an individual's crime. - There is no organization. 429 00:51:39,847 --> 00:51:41,439 What do you know about Willi Graf? 430 00:51:41,567 --> 00:51:45,685 Sergeant, he studied medicine like my brother. He comes to our house occasionally. 431 00:51:45,967 --> 00:51:49,926 We know he helped you guys copying the flyers at the studio. 432 00:51:50,207 --> 00:51:52,004 Maybe you found his fingerprints, 433 00:51:52,127 --> 00:51:55,039 but he went to studio at some other time. - When? 434 00:51:55,167 --> 00:51:58,318 Middle of January. We were showing Eickemayer's paintings. 435 00:51:58,447 --> 00:52:00,677 That's why there are all kinds of fingerprints in studio. 436 00:52:00,807 --> 00:52:04,846 Who else was there? Schmorell? - Maybe, I dont know. 437 00:52:04,967 --> 00:52:08,039 I was just there at beginning, then I went to concert. 438 00:52:09,367 --> 00:52:13,246 Did Probst bring flyer to Salzburg and Linz? - No. 439 00:52:13,367 --> 00:52:17,519 Hans didn't tell him anything, cause he has wife and three children 440 00:52:18,287 --> 00:52:22,280 You better tell me the damn truth. I am expecting from you... 441 00:52:22,407 --> 00:52:25,399 to finally own up to what's going on. 442 00:52:35,687 --> 00:52:37,484 Graf, Anneliese? 443 00:52:38,207 --> 00:52:41,244 I met her about 8-10 times. 444 00:52:41,367 --> 00:52:45,326 What did you talk about? - About literature and science. 445 00:52:45,687 --> 00:52:49,123 I found Graf rather unpolitical. - Unpolitical, but an insider? 446 00:52:49,647 --> 00:52:53,526 I have to insist that Graf has absolutely nothing to do with the flyers. 447 00:52:53,647 --> 00:52:56,605 How about Schertling? - Gisela I met several times, 448 00:52:56,727 --> 00:53:00,515 since we studied at same university. I know her from labor camp Krauchwies. 449 00:53:00,647 --> 00:53:05,243 She is a national-socialist. - By your saying, Miss Scholl, 450 00:53:05,367 --> 00:53:09,246 Germans are either apolitical or are admirers of the movement. 451 00:53:10,767 --> 00:53:13,122 Then everything should be fine for you, isn't it, Mr Mohr? 452 00:53:36,967 --> 00:53:39,561 As per our investigations this so called "White Rose"... 453 00:53:39,687 --> 00:53:42,645 bought 10,000 sheets of paper in January alone... 454 00:53:42,727 --> 00:53:45,366 as well as 2,000 envelopes. 455 00:53:45,487 --> 00:53:48,365 Who did that? - My brother and I. 456 00:53:48,447 --> 00:53:50,244 It may sound plausible, 457 00:53:50,767 --> 00:53:53,964 since the first four issues only had impressions in the Hundreds. 458 00:53:54,087 --> 00:53:56,681 You don't expect me to believe that you and your brother alone... 459 00:53:56,807 --> 00:53:59,685 copied thousands of flyers for the 5 and 6th edition? 460 00:53:59,807 --> 00:54:04,198 and then sent them out? - We worked on them day and night. 461 00:54:04,607 --> 00:54:09,397 Very admirable. And beside that you are still taking classes? 462 00:54:10,327 --> 00:54:15,162 Yes. We were trying to make it look like there were lots of members. 463 00:54:20,407 --> 00:54:23,638 We know that your brother, Graf von Schmorell, as well as some... 464 00:54:24,247 --> 00:54:26,807 Furtwängler, and a Wittenstein served together at the Eastern front. 465 00:54:26,927 --> 00:54:29,441 They all study here in Munich. 466 00:54:30,287 --> 00:54:33,643 And there was no political communication between them? 467 00:54:34,687 --> 00:54:37,247 My brother only told me about the mass deaths, but not about... 468 00:54:37,367 --> 00:54:40,882 his comrades. - I don't believe you, Miss Scholl. 469 00:54:41,007 --> 00:54:45,159 Nowadays everyone is careful when it comes to political opinions. 470 00:54:45,927 --> 00:54:48,077 Just like you with your flyers. 471 00:54:50,887 --> 00:54:52,798 Where did you get these addresses? 472 00:54:52,927 --> 00:54:55,680 Copied from phonebooks at the German museum. 473 00:55:00,847 --> 00:55:06,444 Let's take a look at Stuttgart: On Jan 27th and the morning after, 474 00:55:06,567 --> 00:55:09,604 about 700 flyers were mailed. 475 00:55:09,727 --> 00:55:12,480 At the same day in Munich... 476 00:55:12,607 --> 00:55:15,724 about 2,000 flyers were distributed. 477 00:55:15,847 --> 00:55:19,556 It's impossible for you and your brother to have done this... 2,000 pieces! 478 00:55:19,767 --> 00:55:23,521 I took the express train to Stuttgart on the 27th... 479 00:55:23,847 --> 00:55:27,203 I had the flyers in my suitcase. After I arrived... 480 00:55:27,287 --> 00:55:30,597 I threw half of them into the mailbox at the station, 481 00:55:30,687 --> 00:55:33,042 and the rest I put into mailboxes in the outskirts. 482 00:55:33,167 --> 00:55:37,365 Your brother couldn't have distributed 2,000 flyers in Munich by himself. 483 00:55:37,487 --> 00:55:40,160 2,000 flyers, put into phone books, in public phone booths. 484 00:55:40,287 --> 00:55:44,405 In Munich as well as other cities. Who helped him? 485 00:55:44,887 --> 00:55:47,082 I wasn't in Munich. 486 00:55:48,767 --> 00:55:51,440 Who supported you financially? 487 00:55:51,567 --> 00:55:54,365 My father gives me 150 Reichsmark every month, 488 00:55:54,567 --> 00:55:56,762 and my brother is paid by the army. 489 00:55:56,887 --> 00:56:01,165 You're saying you can afford your life as well as all the flyers and postage with that? 490 00:56:03,687 --> 00:56:07,566 Each of your many trips to Ulm already costs 15 Mark. 491 00:56:07,647 --> 00:56:11,037 We borrowed some money from friends. - From whom? 492 00:56:19,847 --> 00:56:22,805 Here, upper left corner... 493 00:56:23,487 --> 00:56:26,081 The letter "I" probably stands for income. 494 00:56:26,207 --> 00:56:30,644 And the name after amount must be the donor. - Yes. 495 00:56:30,727 --> 00:56:32,843 Your fiancé is in that list as well. 496 00:56:39,967 --> 00:56:42,037 So he was a member of the group! - No! 497 00:56:42,847 --> 00:56:45,441 Everytime we borrowed money, we made up a story. 498 00:56:45,567 --> 00:56:47,762 You can ask anyone on the list. 499 00:56:50,367 --> 00:56:53,120 My brother and I are who you are looking for. 500 00:56:58,527 --> 00:57:01,803 Have you ever thought about the consequences for you and your brother... 501 00:57:01,927 --> 00:57:03,724 getting into this kind of thing? 502 00:57:10,807 --> 00:57:12,877 We have all the names! 503 00:57:17,327 --> 00:57:20,717 Miss Scholl, you should consider cooperating with us. 504 00:57:21,407 --> 00:57:23,921 This would have a positive effect on your sentence. 505 00:57:24,367 --> 00:57:27,996 Think about your poor parents, and the shame you brought to them. 506 00:57:28,127 --> 00:57:31,881 Mr Mohr, you accuse us of treason. And now you want us... 507 00:57:32,007 --> 00:57:35,522 to betray our so-called comrades, just to save my own skin? 508 00:57:36,367 --> 00:57:39,677 Helping solve a crime is not a betrayal. 509 00:57:39,967 --> 00:57:42,686 My brother's classmates have nothing to do with this. 510 00:57:49,287 --> 00:57:50,481 Lohner! 511 00:57:54,727 --> 00:57:55,921 Take her away! 512 00:58:08,167 --> 00:58:10,078 I am very worried about Fritz. 513 00:58:11,287 --> 00:58:13,881 How could I write his name in my notebook? 514 00:58:15,647 --> 00:58:18,764 Was he part of it? - Absolutely not. 515 00:58:18,887 --> 00:58:22,436 And he really didn't have a clue? - No. 516 00:58:23,847 --> 00:58:26,964 His is a solider, and he keeps up his oath to Hitler. 517 00:58:28,287 --> 00:58:32,075 We had lots of fights about this. I was always against supporting the front line, 518 00:58:32,207 --> 00:58:35,802 as it would only prolong the war. He didn't agree with that at all. 519 00:58:37,327 --> 00:58:41,366 Was he in Stalingrad too? - He was there. 520 00:58:42,567 --> 00:58:46,003 Luckily, he was transfered to Lemberg as one of the last groups. 521 00:58:46,767 --> 00:58:51,966 He is now in a hospital. They amputated two of his fingers, 522 00:58:53,167 --> 00:58:55,840 since he and his people were out in the cold... 523 00:58:55,967 --> 00:58:58,606 at 30 below. Day and night. For weeks. 524 00:58:58,727 --> 00:59:02,879 I really hope he'll survive the war, without becoming its victim. 525 00:59:04,167 --> 00:59:06,965 What if he finds out what happened to you? 526 00:59:07,647 --> 00:59:09,763 he will understand me. 527 00:59:20,967 --> 00:59:22,366 I hope so. 528 00:59:23,767 --> 00:59:25,837 What does he look like? 529 00:59:27,647 --> 00:59:30,081 Tall, dark hair. 530 00:59:31,887 --> 00:59:33,605 A free spirit. 531 00:59:34,567 --> 00:59:37,161 He could always make me laugh. 532 00:59:38,647 --> 00:59:43,437 The love, this unconditional love, is just so amazing. 533 00:59:44,887 --> 00:59:47,162 When was the last time you saw him? 534 00:59:50,007 --> 00:59:55,400 Last summer. We were in Karolinensiel at the North Sea. 535 00:59:55,847 --> 00:59:59,556 We sailed out with a fishing boat early in the morning... 536 01:00:01,167 --> 01:00:03,840 and in the evening to the flats on a horse carriage. 537 01:00:05,247 --> 01:00:09,320 At night we sang, and talked about peace. 538 01:00:10,447 --> 01:00:15,237 No soliders, no planes and no bombs. 539 01:00:17,367 --> 01:00:20,404 Only the sea, the sky, 540 01:00:22,847 --> 01:00:24,917 sea breeze and our dreams. 541 01:01:22,127 --> 01:01:25,802 Dear God, I can't help but babble to you. 542 01:01:26,407 --> 01:01:29,717 I can do nothing else but to offer you my heart. 543 01:01:30,527 --> 01:01:34,486 You created us, and our hearts are so tense, 544 01:01:34,607 --> 01:01:36,723 until it finds peace in You. 545 01:01:38,127 --> 01:01:39,480 Amen. 546 01:01:58,847 --> 01:02:00,644 Here, have some. 547 01:02:16,047 --> 01:02:18,003 It's real coffee... From beans. 548 01:02:19,287 --> 01:02:23,280 Miss Scholl, you are concerned about the welfare of the German people, aren't you? 549 01:02:24,647 --> 01:02:27,957 Yes. - Unlike this Elser, who planted a bomb... 550 01:02:28,047 --> 01:02:30,515 in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich 1939. 551 01:02:30,647 --> 01:02:35,767 Although you chose the wrong slogans, you used a peaceful methods. 552 01:02:38,847 --> 01:02:41,156 So why do you guys want to punish us then anyway? 553 01:02:41,247 --> 01:02:45,160 Because of the law! Without law there's no order. 554 01:02:45,287 --> 01:02:49,075 The law you're referring to used to defend people's liberty of speech... 555 01:02:49,207 --> 01:02:52,483 before Hitler took power in 1933. But now, people who speak up 556 01:02:52,607 --> 01:02:57,556 are punished by prison or death. What does order have to do with this? 557 01:02:58,047 --> 01:03:00,641 What else should we abide by, if not by the law, 558 01:03:00,767 --> 01:03:03,998 no matter by whom it was drafted. - By your conscience. 559 01:03:05,367 --> 01:03:06,766 Oh really... 560 01:03:09,047 --> 01:03:11,800 This is the law, and this is the people. 561 01:03:11,967 --> 01:03:15,039 And my job as a police officer is to see whether the two align. 562 01:03:15,167 --> 01:03:16,839 And if it doesn't... 563 01:03:18,087 --> 01:03:21,204 I have to figure out where the problem is. - Laws change. 564 01:03:21,327 --> 01:03:24,319 The conscience doesn't. - What if everyone would decide for themselves... 565 01:03:24,447 --> 01:03:27,598 what's right and wrong, by his conscience. Even if a criminal... 566 01:03:27,727 --> 01:03:30,639 would succeed in overthrowing the leader, what would happen then? 567 01:03:30,767 --> 01:03:34,123 We would end up in criminal chaos! The so-called free expression, 568 01:03:34,247 --> 01:03:37,159 federalism, democracy? We used to have them all. 569 01:03:37,247 --> 01:03:39,078 And we know where that got us. 570 01:03:39,207 --> 01:03:42,836 Without Hitler and his party there would finally be law and order for everyone. 571 01:03:43,167 --> 01:03:46,842 And protection for every individual, not just those agreeing with the general consensus. 572 01:03:47,567 --> 01:03:49,285 Arbitrariness. Follower. 573 01:03:49,407 --> 01:03:52,319 What gives you the right to be this dismissive? - You are the one being dismissive. 574 01:03:52,447 --> 01:03:55,598 If you label my brother and me criminals, just because of those flyers, 575 01:03:55,847 --> 01:03:58,998 even though we've done nothing but trying to convince with words. 576 01:03:59,287 --> 01:04:03,803 You and your privileges, that you and your clique are exploiting shamelessly. 577 01:04:03,927 --> 01:04:06,487 You are using our money to go to college during wartime. 578 01:04:06,607 --> 01:04:09,679 During that damn democracy, all I could become was a tailor. 579 01:04:09,807 --> 01:04:12,605 Do you know who made me join the police? The French who occupied Pfalz. 580 01:04:12,727 --> 01:04:16,163 Not German democracy. If there hadn't been the movement 581 01:04:16,287 --> 01:04:18,721 I would still be a police officer in the countryside of Pirmasens today. 582 01:04:20,767 --> 01:04:25,158 The shameful Versailles Treaty, inflation, unemployment. 583 01:04:25,247 --> 01:04:28,922 The economic crisis. All that was swept away by our leader Adolf Hitler. 584 01:04:29,047 --> 01:04:31,242 And also lead Germany into a doomed war. 585 01:04:31,367 --> 01:04:34,643 For whom every further victim is a waste. - Into the heroic war! 586 01:04:34,967 --> 01:04:37,606 You receive the same food stamps as we, 587 01:04:37,727 --> 01:04:39,445 the ones you disdain and fight against. 588 01:04:39,567 --> 01:04:42,161 No matter what happens you live a better life than we do. 589 01:04:42,767 --> 01:04:47,443 You absolutely have no need to do so. Why is it that you're still acting up? 590 01:04:47,567 --> 01:04:49,922 The leader and the German people are protecting you! 591 01:04:50,047 --> 01:04:53,722 In here, in this Wittelsbacher Palais, or having my family arrested. 592 01:04:53,847 --> 01:04:56,725 Our German soldiers are liberating Europe from the money class... 593 01:04:56,847 --> 01:05:00,556 and from the Bolschewists, and are fighting for a great and free Germany. 594 01:05:00,687 --> 01:05:03,759 Germany's territory will never again be occupied. Mark my words. 595 01:05:03,887 --> 01:05:06,481 Until this war is over, and foreign troops will march in... 596 01:05:06,607 --> 01:05:10,316 and all kinds of people will point at us, saying we didn't fight against Hitler. 597 01:05:10,807 --> 01:05:13,446 And what will you say when, after the final victory has been achieved... 598 01:05:13,527 --> 01:05:16,325 and after all that blood and sacrifice wealth and freedom will reign in Germany? 599 01:05:16,447 --> 01:05:20,235 The things you dreamed about when you joined the Hitler Youth? 600 01:05:21,967 --> 01:05:25,118 German people don't anymore expect that to happen in Hitler's Germany. 601 01:05:26,047 --> 01:05:28,686 But what if it really did come true, then what? 602 01:05:31,647 --> 01:05:34,207 Are you a protestant? - Yes. 603 01:05:35,207 --> 01:05:37,641 Even the Church is asking the disciples to follow them. 604 01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:40,884 Even if they doubt. - Church is voluntary. 605 01:05:41,527 --> 01:05:44,724 But Hitler and the Nazis will not give you any choices! 606 01:05:46,047 --> 01:05:50,598 Why would a young person like you risk everything for mislead ideas? 607 01:05:56,967 --> 01:05:59,083 For my own conscience. 608 01:06:01,967 --> 01:06:03,719 I don't understand why you, with your talent, 609 01:06:03,847 --> 01:06:06,645 wouldn't agree with National Socialist ideas. 610 01:06:07,367 --> 01:06:09,597 Freedom, Honor, Wealth. 611 01:06:09,727 --> 01:06:13,276 A morally responsible country, this is our faith! 612 01:06:13,527 --> 01:06:16,564 Didn't the horrible bloodshed the National Socialists caused... 613 01:06:16,647 --> 01:06:19,241 all over Europe, in the name of freedom and honor, 614 01:06:19,367 --> 01:06:21,039 open up your eyes? 615 01:06:23,887 --> 01:06:26,355 Germany's name will forever be shamed if the German youth... 616 01:06:26,487 --> 01:06:30,162 won't overthrow Hitler, in order to create a new spiritual Germany! 617 01:06:30,527 --> 01:06:33,724 The new Europe can only be of national socialist nature. 618 01:06:33,847 --> 01:06:36,202 And what if your leader is a lunatic? 619 01:06:36,767 --> 01:06:39,998 Think about national hatred! We had a Jewish teacher in Ulm... 620 01:06:40,127 --> 01:06:44,200 who was forced to stand in front of an SA-Group, 621 01:06:45,167 --> 01:06:48,637 and everyone was ordered to walk in front of him and spit in his face. 622 01:06:50,047 --> 01:06:54,837 Since that night, he's gone. Just like thousands of others here in Munich since '41. 623 01:06:54,927 --> 01:06:57,202 Presumably sent to work camps in the East. 624 01:06:57,487 --> 01:07:01,560 You believe this nonsense? The Jews are emigrating themselves. 625 01:07:01,687 --> 01:07:04,804 Solders who were at the Eastern front have been talking about extermination camps for a while. 626 01:07:04,927 --> 01:07:07,646 Hitler wants to eradicate all Jews in Europe. 627 01:07:07,767 --> 01:07:11,157 He has been promoting this madness for 20 years already. 628 01:07:11,287 --> 01:07:13,960 How can you believe that Jews are different from us? 629 01:07:14,047 --> 01:07:17,039 This gang has only brought us misery. But you belong... 630 01:07:17,167 --> 01:07:20,637 to a confused generation that doesn't understand anything. Wrong upbringing. 631 01:07:20,767 --> 01:07:25,045 But it's probably it's our own fault. I would have raised a girl like you differently. 632 01:07:25,327 --> 01:07:27,283 If you knew how shocked it was when I heard that 633 01:07:27,407 --> 01:07:32,640 Nazis are killing mentally handicapped children with poison gas! 634 01:07:33,127 --> 01:07:37,086 My mother's friends told me how children from Church program were taken... 635 01:07:37,207 --> 01:07:40,597 from the institute, and transported away in trucks. 636 01:07:41,767 --> 01:07:45,043 The other kids were asking "Where does the truck go?" 637 01:07:45,767 --> 01:07:49,282 "They're going to heaven" the nurses told them. 638 01:07:49,687 --> 01:07:53,077 So the rest of the kids got on the truck as well. Singing. 639 01:07:53,287 --> 01:07:56,836 And because I feel for these people you think my upbringing must've been wrong? 640 01:07:59,487 --> 01:08:04,800 These are unworthy lives. You have been trained as a nurse... 641 01:08:05,007 --> 01:08:07,999 you must have met mental patients. 642 01:08:08,647 --> 01:08:12,322 Yes, and that's why I clearly know that there are no circumstances, 643 01:08:12,447 --> 01:08:15,996 under which a person should make judgements that only God could make. 644 01:08:16,407 --> 01:08:19,797 Nobody knows what in going on in the soul of a mental patient. 645 01:08:20,287 --> 01:08:23,438 Nobody knows which secret, interior maturity could rise out of suffering. 646 01:08:23,567 --> 01:08:25,637 Every life has a value. 647 01:08:28,527 --> 01:08:32,281 You have to get used to this coming of a new age. 648 01:08:33,527 --> 01:08:36,803 What you are talking about has nothing to do with reality. 649 01:08:37,407 --> 01:08:42,527 Of course it is related to reality. With reality, decency, 650 01:08:42,727 --> 01:08:46,436 morality and God. - God doesn't exist... 651 01:09:08,567 --> 01:09:14,437 Isn't it right that you relied on your brother, 652 01:09:14,567 --> 01:09:19,846 that you agreed with him, and just went along? 653 01:09:20,327 --> 01:09:22,841 Shouldn't we just take it down like that? 654 01:09:24,247 --> 01:09:26,283 No, Mr. Mohr. Because it is not the truth. 655 01:09:37,167 --> 01:09:40,921 You known, I have a son. He is even a year younger than you are. 656 01:09:41,647 --> 01:09:45,765 He sometimes has some crazy ideas too, but now he is at the Eastern front. 657 01:09:45,887 --> 01:09:48,799 Because he knows he must do his duty. 658 01:09:49,047 --> 01:09:51,880 You really believe in the final victory, Mr. Mohr? 659 01:09:53,647 --> 01:09:56,480 Ms. Scholl, if you had thought about all this, 660 01:09:57,007 --> 01:10:00,238 you would have never gotten involved in these activities. 661 01:10:00,807 --> 01:10:02,684 This is about your life! 662 01:10:12,927 --> 01:10:18,285 Here... For the protocol, I am accusing you of the following: 663 01:10:19,847 --> 01:10:22,919 "After our conversation you have come to the conclusion 664 01:10:23,047 --> 01:10:26,756 that you and your brother's actions, 665 01:10:26,847 --> 01:10:30,157 In the current wartime situation, are a crime against the community. 666 01:10:30,247 --> 01:10:33,319 Especially in the consideration of our suffering army in the East, 667 01:10:33,407 --> 01:10:38,117 and that it should be condemned to the fullest. 668 01:10:39,447 --> 01:10:41,722 No, not as I see it. 669 01:10:42,127 --> 01:10:45,915 Confessing to mistake is not the same as betraying your brother. 670 01:10:46,207 --> 01:10:50,086 But a betrayal of the idea. I would do it all over again, 671 01:10:50,167 --> 01:10:52,761 because not mine, but your world view is flawed. 672 01:10:52,847 --> 01:10:56,760 I still think that I've done what is right for my people. 673 01:10:57,167 --> 01:11:01,046 I have no regrets, and I will take full responsibility. 674 01:11:12,127 --> 01:11:15,324 Please send up a transcriber. Yes. 675 01:11:16,567 --> 01:11:19,001 Tell the boss we are done. 676 01:11:49,087 --> 01:11:52,921 Mohr offered me a golden bridge if I renounce our ideas. 677 01:11:53,487 --> 01:11:56,923 And? - I didn't go for it. 678 01:11:57,727 --> 01:11:59,319 Why not? 679 01:12:00,567 --> 01:12:05,118 Sophie, you are so young, you have to survive. For your ideas and for yourself. 680 01:12:05,247 --> 01:12:09,399 And for your family. For god's sake, take his offer. 681 01:12:09,767 --> 01:12:11,439 There is no going back. 682 01:12:30,167 --> 01:12:31,919 Air Raid Alert 683 01:12:53,687 --> 01:12:57,760 Get down! Away from the windows! Down here it's the safest. 684 01:13:06,647 --> 01:13:08,080 Come down! 685 01:13:11,087 --> 01:13:13,681 It won't take long, and we're free! 686 01:13:42,967 --> 01:13:45,162 The new arrival isn't Schmorell, 687 01:13:46,967 --> 01:13:49,242 it's a Christoph Probst. 688 01:13:49,687 --> 01:13:51,757 For treason as well. 689 01:13:58,087 --> 01:14:00,760 I am really sorry. I thought... 690 01:14:04,567 --> 01:14:06,444 He has 3 kids. 691 01:14:11,247 --> 01:14:13,886 The youngest was just born. 692 01:14:15,367 --> 01:14:18,200 And his wife is down with childbed fever. 693 01:14:33,247 --> 01:14:35,556 Ms. Scholl, you have to see the prosecutor now. 694 01:14:51,847 --> 01:14:53,280 Go along. 695 01:15:04,607 --> 01:15:06,598 Here is my indictment. 696 01:15:08,767 --> 01:15:11,520 Your trial will start tomorrow morning in front of a senior judge. 697 01:15:11,607 --> 01:15:14,565 I have submitted a court order. 698 01:15:14,847 --> 01:15:17,759 Tomorrow already? - This case doesn't allow any delays. 699 01:15:27,247 --> 01:15:31,035 Treason, moral disruption and support of the enemy 700 01:15:35,727 --> 01:15:38,036 And tomorrow already will be the trial! 701 01:15:47,567 --> 01:15:50,035 What a glorious, sunny day. 702 01:15:59,767 --> 01:16:02,440 I sincerely pray to you, 703 01:16:03,847 --> 01:16:06,884 I call upon you, "You" I call, 704 01:16:07,007 --> 01:16:12,877 I may not know a thing about you, but you are still my only hope. 705 01:16:14,767 --> 01:16:16,166 I pray to you, 706 01:16:17,047 --> 01:16:22,326 please don't abandon me, my dear God, my dear father. 707 01:16:25,567 --> 01:16:27,000 Amen. 708 01:16:33,567 --> 01:16:36,001 I am attorney Klein, your court-appointed lawyer. 709 01:16:36,327 --> 01:16:38,397 Have you seen the indictment? 710 01:16:40,687 --> 01:16:42,803 Yes. - Any questions? 711 01:16:44,087 --> 01:16:46,806 What will happen to my parents and siblings in Ulm? 712 01:16:51,167 --> 01:16:52,441 Please! 713 01:16:54,447 --> 01:16:56,756 This will be decided in a separate case. 714 01:16:57,247 --> 01:17:01,525 I just want to know what will happen. Aren't you my lawyer? 715 01:17:01,967 --> 01:17:05,243 You act like I got you into this situation. 716 01:17:05,367 --> 01:17:08,484 I am entitled to know what will happen to my family, and you know that! 717 01:17:08,567 --> 01:17:11,320 Do you really think you are in a position to make demands? 718 01:17:13,087 --> 01:17:16,921 No matter what happens to my brother, I don't want an easier sentence. 719 01:17:17,047 --> 01:17:19,561 I am just as guilty as he is, by your viewpoint. 720 01:17:19,687 --> 01:17:22,076 Is that all you got to say? 721 01:17:23,047 --> 01:17:26,005 No. - It seems, you and your brother don't feel like... 722 01:17:26,127 --> 01:17:30,120 actually becoming part of the community. But you are very wrong about that! 723 01:17:30,247 --> 01:17:33,842 Even the chairman of the people's court will be here tomorrow. 724 01:17:33,967 --> 01:17:36,356 He will make sure you will forget about this nonsense. 725 01:17:36,487 --> 01:17:39,081 He won't have any mercy with you. 726 01:17:39,767 --> 01:17:41,837 Open the door! 727 01:17:43,967 --> 01:17:48,597 Do you want something? - No, nothing. We'll see you in court tomorrow. 728 01:17:53,407 --> 01:17:54,886 What a coward. 729 01:18:00,447 --> 01:18:03,519 Freisler will be presenting both of you as rotten criminals tomorrow. 730 01:18:04,207 --> 01:18:08,166 He used to be a USSR officer. Now he has to prove his loyalty. 731 01:18:09,367 --> 01:18:12,916 Our father used to say: I want you to live straight and free, 732 01:18:13,127 --> 01:18:14,924 even if it may be hard. 733 01:18:26,407 --> 01:18:28,477 Will the trial be public? 734 01:18:29,407 --> 01:18:33,446 I'm sure it is. It's a show trial, a deterrent. 735 01:18:33,567 --> 01:18:36,001 Then Freisler will have to talk about the flyers in front of everybody! 736 01:18:36,127 --> 01:18:41,042 And everyone will hear what we have to say. I'm sure there's going to be a riot... 737 01:18:41,167 --> 01:18:44,637 among the students when they find out what's happening because of some flyers. 738 01:18:48,047 --> 01:18:53,440 After the trial you will probably be transferred. And in the worst case: 739 01:18:53,567 --> 01:18:57,116 everyone gets 99 days before excecution. 740 01:19:01,007 --> 01:19:05,523 "A tough mind, and a soft heart" my brother used to say. 741 01:19:14,967 --> 01:19:16,639 I once dreamed... 742 01:19:17,007 --> 01:19:19,999 that I was holding a child in my arms, with a long white dress. 743 01:19:20,127 --> 01:19:23,915 I could feel her warmth... But suddenly the earth shook, 744 01:19:24,047 --> 01:19:26,845 and beneath me a crevasse opened. 745 01:19:27,847 --> 01:19:31,601 I began to slip. And I look at the child... 746 01:19:31,727 --> 01:19:35,163 but I still had enough time to put her safely on the ground... 747 01:19:36,247 --> 01:19:40,240 I plunged, but I still felt liberated and relaxed. 748 01:19:41,887 --> 01:19:45,721 The child in the long white dress is our idea, and it survived. 749 01:19:50,927 --> 01:19:54,966 Scholl, get ready for transport! - She has to get dressed properly first! 750 01:20:02,767 --> 01:20:03,995 Thanks. 751 01:20:28,927 --> 01:20:32,124 May God be with you, Sophie! - May God be with you, Else! 752 01:20:33,767 --> 01:20:35,041 Thank you so much. 753 01:22:47,047 --> 01:22:49,561 How are you? - And yourself? 754 01:22:49,647 --> 01:22:52,207 Be quiet! Only speak when are you are asked! 755 01:22:53,327 --> 01:22:55,716 You must fight for yourself now. - Quiet now! 756 01:23:11,967 --> 01:23:14,481 Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler! 757 01:23:32,127 --> 01:23:35,164 I hereby announce the court of the people opened... 758 01:23:35,287 --> 01:23:39,963 agaist Hans Fritz Scholl and Sophie Magdalena Scholl from Munich. 759 01:23:40,087 --> 01:23:44,478 and further Christoph Hermann Probst from Aldrans, for acts of treason, 760 01:23:44,607 --> 01:23:47,644 moral disruption and support of the enemy. 761 01:23:47,967 --> 01:23:50,242 Probst, Christoph! 762 01:24:10,247 --> 01:24:13,444 You are married with 3 children? 763 01:24:13,847 --> 01:24:17,203 Yes, 2 and a half, 1 and 3 months, and 4 weeks old. 764 01:24:17,327 --> 01:24:21,718 And how is a failure like you supposed to raise... 765 01:24:21,847 --> 01:24:25,635 three children, to be real Germans? - I am a good father and... 766 01:24:25,807 --> 01:24:28,401 "and" what? 767 01:24:30,367 --> 01:24:32,039 ...and have no political ambition. 768 01:24:32,167 --> 01:24:35,637 No political ambitions... You are making me laugh! 769 01:24:37,447 --> 01:24:39,278 Is this your handwriting? 770 01:24:40,687 --> 01:24:44,316 Yes. - Despite the welfare of the German national socialist Reich... 771 01:24:44,447 --> 01:24:46,563 to provide you with an education, and despite the fact... 772 01:24:46,687 --> 01:24:51,602 that the national socialist population politics allowed you... 773 01:24:51,727 --> 01:24:54,719 to have your family as a student, that still didn't keep you... 774 01:24:54,847 --> 01:24:58,840 from creating this manuscript when Scholl's asked you to. 775 01:24:58,967 --> 01:25:01,879 An article which uses the heroic experiences of Stalingrad... 776 01:25:02,007 --> 01:25:05,283 to portrait our leaders as a military imposter, 777 01:25:05,407 --> 01:25:08,365 and to promote surrender. Do you admit this? 778 01:25:08,487 --> 01:25:10,842 Yes, sir. But it was just a draft... 779 01:25:10,967 --> 01:25:15,358 There is no "just", when the German people are fighting to survive. 780 01:25:15,487 --> 01:25:19,400 But I have to admit that I was rather depressed at the time when I wrote this... 781 01:25:19,487 --> 01:25:23,116 Really? So a clinical depression was causing you... 782 01:25:23,207 --> 01:25:25,721 to write this essay? 783 01:25:25,847 --> 01:25:29,283 ...depressed at the time when I wrote this. 784 01:25:29,407 --> 01:25:32,001 The war, my wife's fever, all of those... 785 01:25:32,087 --> 01:25:36,319 Oh, please stop! This is no excuse to commit treason of this scale! 786 01:25:36,447 --> 01:25:38,881 But I already distanced myself from this yesterday. In writing. 787 01:25:39,487 --> 01:25:42,479 I also have to clarify that I did not finance... 788 01:25:42,607 --> 01:25:45,565 or materially support, produce, or distribute... 789 01:25:45,647 --> 01:25:48,161 any of these pamphlets. 790 01:25:48,247 --> 01:25:51,045 My emotional condition was... - Yes, we have all heard how you... 791 01:25:51,167 --> 01:25:55,126 ...are trying to play the psychotic retard, in order to get out of this. 792 01:25:59,087 --> 01:26:02,397 Mr. Chairman, my children need their father. 793 01:26:02,527 --> 01:26:05,917 German children do not need a father like you. 794 01:26:06,047 --> 01:26:10,040 You are unworthy, Probst! 795 01:26:14,647 --> 01:26:18,003 Defence, any further questions? - No, Mr. Chairman. 796 01:26:19,207 --> 01:26:20,322 Take him away! 797 01:26:37,327 --> 01:26:39,841 Scholl, Hans... 798 01:26:56,287 --> 01:27:01,315 You have studied medicine since 1939? - Yes. 799 01:27:01,447 --> 01:27:05,076 And you are, thanks to this national socialist government, 800 01:27:05,207 --> 01:27:08,563 in your 8th term by now. - Yes, the 8th term is correct. 801 01:27:08,687 --> 01:27:13,556 On this nation's money! Another parasite. 802 01:27:14,247 --> 01:27:17,284 At some point you were serving at a field hospital... 803 01:27:17,407 --> 01:27:21,923 and worked as medical staff on the Eastern front, between July and November 1942? 804 01:27:22,047 --> 01:27:23,924 That is true too. But I want to say that... 805 01:27:24,047 --> 01:27:28,040 Be quiet until lI ask you! - I wanted to say that I am not a parasite... 806 01:27:28,167 --> 01:27:30,920 Shut your mouth or I will have you removed! 807 01:27:31,047 --> 01:27:34,357 ...study is a duty, for a member for the student guard. 808 01:27:34,487 --> 01:27:37,797 Oh well, let's talk about duty then... 809 01:27:37,927 --> 01:27:42,443 As a student you have the duty to be an exemplary member of the community. 810 01:27:42,567 --> 01:27:46,116 This, and the support the Reich provided you with, 811 01:27:46,247 --> 01:27:50,923 didn't stop you, during the summer of 1942, 812 01:27:51,247 --> 01:27:55,035 from handing out four "White Rose" flyers which, in a derogatory way, 813 01:27:55,167 --> 01:27:59,240 tried to predict the German defeat, and was calling for a passive resistance, 814 01:27:59,367 --> 01:28:03,280 and sabotage of military industries. And was generally... 815 01:28:03,407 --> 01:28:07,400 trying to promote ways to remove the national socialist way of life... 816 01:28:07,527 --> 01:28:10,644 from the German people. - This is outrageous! 817 01:28:10,767 --> 01:28:12,758 The boldness... - Traitors... - ...the fatherland... 818 01:28:12,847 --> 01:28:14,963 Scholl, do you admit this? 819 01:28:15,447 --> 01:28:20,316 Yes. - And you even cowardly got your sister involved into this. 820 01:28:23,407 --> 01:28:26,797 It was my own decision. - Did I ask you, defendant? 821 01:28:26,927 --> 01:28:30,920 I need to correct this. - Save us your commentaries! 822 01:28:33,367 --> 01:28:36,518 Did you write these flyers since you imagined... 823 01:28:36,647 --> 01:28:41,516 that the German people would only be able to survive by betraying their leader? 824 01:28:46,607 --> 01:28:50,486 The war cannot... - Yes or no? This is not a difficult question! 825 01:28:50,607 --> 01:28:53,963 We do not have a chance against the US, the UK and the Russia. 826 01:28:54,087 --> 01:28:55,805 Just look at the map for yourself! 827 01:28:55,927 --> 01:28:59,078 With mathematical accuracy is Hitler leading Germany into an abyss. 828 01:28:59,207 --> 01:29:01,641 He cannot win this war, all he can do is extend it! 829 01:29:01,767 --> 01:29:05,555 You are quite wrong about the fighting spirit... 830 01:29:05,687 --> 01:29:08,645 and the stamina of the German people! 831 01:29:08,767 --> 01:29:11,327 Through your terrorist support of the enemy... 832 01:29:11,447 --> 01:29:14,245 even more German will die! 833 01:29:14,367 --> 01:29:17,598 Only if we find a way to quickly to the war, can we avoid... 834 01:29:17,727 --> 01:29:19,797 Stop the war? How that? - ...avoid that even... 835 01:29:19,927 --> 01:29:23,840 So, you think it's up to you to decide about war and peace? 836 01:29:23,967 --> 01:29:28,245 The German people want the total war! 837 01:29:28,367 --> 01:29:32,758 Germans' blood had bled dry, they want peace. Hitler and his supporters... 838 01:29:32,847 --> 01:29:35,645 will be responsible for a unbelievable genocide in Europe, 839 01:29:35,767 --> 01:29:39,362 one which will exceed any known scale. Everybody here knows that... 840 01:29:39,447 --> 01:29:41,756 Everyone... - Who do you think you are? 841 01:29:41,887 --> 01:29:44,879 You despicable dog, you have the audaciousness... 842 01:29:44,967 --> 01:29:48,084 to insult the leader in front of this court? 843 01:29:48,767 --> 01:29:52,760 I myself was at the Eastern front, just like many in the audience here. 844 01:29:54,047 --> 01:29:55,526 You weren't there! 845 01:29:55,927 --> 01:29:59,920 With my own eyes I have seen the bloodshed in Poland and Russia. 846 01:30:00,127 --> 01:30:02,800 I saw women and children dying... 847 01:30:04,047 --> 01:30:07,562 killed by German soldiers. - And you really think that... 848 01:30:07,647 --> 01:30:13,119 anybody here will believe your nonsense? 849 01:30:13,247 --> 01:30:15,522 If Hitler and you weren't afraid of our thoughts, 850 01:30:15,647 --> 01:30:18,366 then we wouldn't be standing here today. - Oh, shut up! 851 01:30:18,487 --> 01:30:22,480 It is anyway... shameless liar... 852 01:30:22,607 --> 01:30:27,681 You are nothing but an... an idiot and a rotten traitor. 853 01:30:28,167 --> 01:30:29,885 End of questioning. 854 01:30:31,847 --> 01:30:34,486 Any more questions? - No. 855 01:30:36,127 --> 01:30:39,961 No further question, Mr. Chairman. - Scholl, Hans, back to your seat. 856 01:30:54,167 --> 01:30:55,805 Sophia Scholl... 857 01:31:09,047 --> 01:31:12,084 Aren't you ashamed to have handed out those treasonous flyers... 858 01:31:12,207 --> 01:31:16,280 at the university? - No, I am not ashamed at all! 859 01:31:16,407 --> 01:31:19,001 Throwing them into the atrium... just like that? 860 01:31:19,887 --> 01:31:22,845 No, not just like that, but to get even the last ones... 861 01:31:22,967 --> 01:31:25,527 Speak up, we can hardly hear you. 862 01:31:26,727 --> 01:31:28,877 I wanted to distribute every last one of the flyers, so that our ideas... 863 01:31:29,007 --> 01:31:34,479 would spread as quickly as possible... - Idea? You call this filth a idea? 864 01:31:34,607 --> 01:31:38,316 You would expect this from a certified idiot, but not a German University student. 865 01:31:39,007 --> 01:31:42,636 We fight with words. - So you actually wrote: 866 01:31:44,127 --> 01:31:49,645 "That's why you should separate from those sub-human national socialists!" 867 01:31:49,767 --> 01:31:53,680 Have a look at yourself, if you want to see some sub-human beings! 868 01:31:54,047 --> 01:31:57,244 How did you get the paper to make these pamphlets? 869 01:31:57,367 --> 01:32:01,918 We bought them, and from the university. - So, from the university? 870 01:32:02,047 --> 01:32:07,246 Malicious theft of common property! Paper! Even though there is a shortage of paper! 871 01:32:07,367 --> 01:32:10,325 But I am not surprised that you would do this. 872 01:32:10,447 --> 01:32:12,836 My brother and I tried to use these flyers to awaken the people, 873 01:32:12,967 --> 01:32:17,324 and to stop the bloodshed against other countries and the Jews. 874 01:32:17,447 --> 01:32:21,076 And not to wait for the Allies to finally put an end to it. 875 01:32:21,487 --> 01:32:24,399 Should we really become a nation, excluded and hated by the rest of the world? 876 01:32:24,527 --> 01:32:26,802 You know, a superior people doesn't care about this 877 01:32:26,927 --> 01:32:30,158 Your superior people actually want peace. 878 01:32:31,407 --> 01:32:34,046 And to find pride in humanity once again. 879 01:32:34,967 --> 01:32:39,165 It wants God, conscience, and compassion. 880 01:32:39,247 --> 01:32:41,807 Well, who do you think you are? 881 01:32:41,887 --> 01:32:45,084 The total war will bring victory to Germany. 882 01:32:45,207 --> 01:32:51,123 It will come out of this stronger and more pure. 883 01:32:51,367 --> 01:32:54,120 What we said and wrote is shared by many. 884 01:32:54,967 --> 01:32:58,846 They just don't dare to say it. - Oh, shut up already! 885 01:32:59,447 --> 01:33:02,120 Questions? - No. 886 01:33:05,767 --> 01:33:08,406 Session finished. Take her away! 887 01:33:19,487 --> 01:33:23,400 We will now come to the closing statements of the defendant. 888 01:33:24,327 --> 01:33:30,038 I am the father... - Remove these people from the court! 889 01:33:30,127 --> 01:33:32,766 I am Robert Scholl, the father of two of the defendants. 890 01:33:32,967 --> 01:33:36,164 I want to clarify a few points... - I have no permission! Remove him! 891 01:33:36,247 --> 01:33:40,638 Get out, take him out! - There is another type of justice! 892 01:33:43,887 --> 01:33:44,956 Silence! 893 01:33:48,407 --> 01:33:52,844 Now for your closing statements. Defendants, rise! 894 01:33:55,607 --> 01:33:59,441 Probst? - I beg you to spare me, for the sake of my children. 895 01:33:59,967 --> 01:34:02,435 I admit and repent everything I have done. 896 01:34:05,207 --> 01:34:06,879 And you, Scholl? 897 01:34:11,727 --> 01:34:15,402 I beg you, your honor. Spare this man, and punish me instead. 898 01:34:15,487 --> 01:34:20,163 If you have nothing to say on your own behalf, then be silent! 899 01:34:23,167 --> 01:34:25,044 Sophia Scholl? 900 01:34:26,287 --> 01:34:29,165 Soon you will stand where we are standing right now. 901 01:34:30,127 --> 01:34:34,325 Every decent being in this room is outraged about what you are saying! 902 01:34:49,927 --> 01:34:52,122 In the name of the German people, 903 01:34:52,767 --> 01:34:56,646 the following charges against Hans Fritz Scholl from Munich, 904 01:34:56,767 --> 01:34:59,964 Sophia Magdalena Scholl from Munich... 905 01:35:00,167 --> 01:35:02,840 and Christoph Hermann Probst from Aldrans... 906 01:35:02,967 --> 01:35:06,801 are recognized by the 1. Senate of the supreme court... 907 01:35:06,887 --> 01:35:10,960 on February 22nd, 1943: 908 01:35:11,047 --> 01:35:15,916 The defendants have been sending out flyers during the war, in order to sabotage... 909 01:35:16,007 --> 01:35:20,762 the arms production, and to overthrow the national socialist way of life of our people, 910 01:35:20,847 --> 01:35:25,363 to promote dangerous ideas and to disgrace our leader... 911 01:35:25,447 --> 01:35:28,166 and by doing so, helped the enemies of this country... 912 01:35:28,247 --> 01:35:30,636 and demoralized our troops. 913 01:35:30,727 --> 01:35:33,525 You are therefore sentenced to death. 914 01:35:33,607 --> 01:35:36,246 You are deprived of any rights as a citizen of this country. 915 01:35:36,327 --> 01:35:39,000 You will cover the expenses for this trial. 916 01:35:39,087 --> 01:35:40,998 Your terror will soon be over. 917 01:35:42,247 --> 01:35:45,523 Today you will hang us, and tommorrow it will be your turn. 918 01:35:45,607 --> 01:35:47,086 Take them away! 919 01:35:52,047 --> 01:35:54,163 Heil Hitler! - Heil Hitler! 920 01:37:42,847 --> 01:37:44,041 This way! 921 01:38:03,927 --> 01:38:06,077 If you have anything to say before your execution... 922 01:38:06,167 --> 01:38:08,886 Please make it short, Ms. Scholl. 923 01:38:10,887 --> 01:38:12,684 Today already? 924 01:38:14,247 --> 01:38:16,841 I was told everybody has 99 days... 925 01:38:17,207 --> 01:38:18,925 You better start writing. 926 01:40:30,967 --> 01:40:33,356 Come here. You have a visitor. 927 01:40:34,887 --> 01:40:36,161 A visitor? 928 01:41:13,967 --> 01:41:16,083 Please don't be afraid. 929 01:41:17,447 --> 01:41:19,802 Given the choice, i would do the same thing again. 930 01:41:20,207 --> 01:41:24,837 You did well. I am proud of you. 931 01:41:34,247 --> 01:41:35,839 My little girl. 932 01:41:38,327 --> 01:41:39,646 Mama... 933 01:41:42,367 --> 01:41:45,279 How you stand by me, brave and steadfast. 934 01:41:48,407 --> 01:41:51,717 Now you will never again come in through our door. 935 01:41:52,847 --> 01:41:55,315 We will meet again in eternity. 936 01:41:57,047 --> 01:42:00,642 Well, Sophie. Jesus... 937 01:42:00,927 --> 01:42:04,636 Yes, Mother, but you too... 938 01:42:05,647 --> 01:42:08,036 Ms. Scholl, please. 939 01:42:52,447 --> 01:42:55,166 I just said farewell to my parents. 940 01:42:56,767 --> 01:42:58,325 They will understand. 941 01:43:01,207 --> 01:43:02,640 Come with me, please. 942 01:43:24,527 --> 01:43:27,963 Ms. Scholl, my name is Alt. 943 01:43:28,247 --> 01:43:30,636 I am the prison priest. 944 01:43:31,247 --> 01:43:33,841 God, oh almighty father, 945 01:43:34,967 --> 01:43:38,039 make this earth fruitful, 946 01:43:38,127 --> 01:43:40,641 so the seeds you sow do not fall in vain, 947 01:43:41,727 --> 01:43:45,242 Let hope grow, oh my creator, 948 01:43:45,607 --> 01:43:48,519 for those who will only see it for the last time. 949 01:43:50,007 --> 01:43:52,601 Amen. - Amen. 950 01:43:57,127 --> 01:43:59,402 I beg you to give me God's blessing. 951 01:44:07,767 --> 01:44:13,239 God the father gives you his blessing, for you are created by his own image. 952 01:44:13,727 --> 01:44:16,116 God, the son gives you his blessing, 953 01:44:16,327 --> 01:44:19,717 for his suffering and death have saved you. 954 01:44:20,447 --> 01:44:23,086 God, the holy spirit gives you his blessing, 955 01:44:23,447 --> 01:44:27,565 for he has taken you to his sacred temple. 956 01:44:29,367 --> 01:44:33,280 Oh, all mighty God, have mercy in your judgement... 957 01:44:34,367 --> 01:44:37,120 and grant you the eternal life. 958 01:44:38,327 --> 01:44:39,760 Amen. - Amen. 959 01:44:51,847 --> 01:44:55,362 No one's love is greater than those who sacrifice themselves for others. 960 01:44:56,007 --> 01:44:57,645 God is with you. 961 01:45:12,967 --> 01:45:15,481 This is against the regulations, but... 962 01:45:37,607 --> 01:45:39,598 Please hurry. 963 01:45:42,367 --> 01:45:43,925 Thanks. 964 01:46:27,487 --> 01:46:29,045 It was not in vain. 965 01:47:07,767 --> 01:47:09,325 Ms. Scholl. 966 01:47:29,967 --> 01:47:31,525 The sun is still shining. 967 01:47:57,287 --> 01:47:59,198 Sophia Magdalena Scholl, 968 01:47:59,447 --> 01:48:04,919 The national attorney general has decided, on 22.2.1943, 969 01:48:05,287 --> 01:48:07,517 that no pardon will be granted. 970 01:48:07,607 --> 01:48:10,360 So as not to obstruct justice. 971 01:48:12,127 --> 01:48:16,518 It is exactly 5:00 pm. The death sentence is to be carried out. 972 01:48:50,447 --> 01:48:52,677 Long live Freedom! 973 01:49:37,047 --> 01:49:40,084 Helmuth von Moltke brought the 6th flyer from the "White Rose" 974 01:49:40,167 --> 01:49:43,796 through Scandinavia to England. Millions of copies were... 975 01:49:43,887 --> 01:49:48,358 air-dropped by the Allied planes over Germany in 1943. 976 01:49:48,647 --> 01:49:52,003 Its title was: A german flyer, 977 01:49:52,087 --> 01:49:54,555 Manifest of Munich students.