"If a wave of protest rolls across the country,
if "it's in the air",
when many people join, then, in one last powerful effort,
we can get rid of this system."
(Second flyer of the WHITE ROSE)
Willi Graf, 25 years old executed on October 12, 1943
Kurt Huber, 49 years old executed on July 13, 1943
Christoph Probst, 23 years old executed on February 22, 1943
Alexander Schmorell, 25 years old executed on July 13, 1943
Hans Scholl, 24 years old executed on February 22, 1943
Sophie Scholl, 21 years old executed on February 22, 1943
Munich Main Station.
Last stop for the train arriving from Stuttgart and Ulm.
Last stop.
If you knew how happy I am.
Little Sophie.
- Happy Birthday. - This is Traute.
- Welcome. - I thank you.
You don't have to be so formal.
You're squashing the flowers.
- What is it? - Nothing.
Can I see your papers.
I'm her brother.
- What are you doing in Munich? - Studying.
But you live in Ulm?
- I'm just starting. - Open your backpack.
Your favorite wine.
- You arrived safely. - Hello.
Like it here?
I'm going to unpack.
This film got support from
The Institute for the Advancement of Film, Berlin
and the Bavarian Film Program
I'll put this in a safe place.
THE WHITE ROSE
I just wanted to say goodbye.
I'm going back to my sister-in-law in the country.
- Do you need anything? - No, thanks.
You like this crazy stuff too?
Well, I don't care.
Are you also studying medicine?
Biology and philosophy.
Your fiancee?
Fine lad. Like my Helmut.
He was in the infantry. But only a corporal.
- Is he in Ulm? - The Caucasus.
He'll be home soon. Russia will soon be on its knees.
If that were only true...
My Helmut was killed in Russia.
In the first few days.
Now I'm all alone.
Hans sure is orderly. It's impossible to find anything.
- I'm leaving now. - Thanks.
Come on, you can unpack later.
- He's gone on ahead. - Where?
- Where are we going? - You'll see.
This is Alex.
Schmorell.
- What about me? - If Hans sees that!
Come in.
Willi Graf... Happy Birthday.
- Do you live here? - That would be nice. No.
The studio belongs to a friend. He's in Cracow now.
We look after it and work here now and then.
You call that work? Alex thinks he's a great painter.
Just like our beloved Fuhrer did.
For she's a jolly good fellow, for she's a jolly good fellow...
Is it for me?
- Of course! - 1... 2... 3... 4... 5...
- Oh, there it is. - We're always very generous.
Our favorite wine.
Students love luxury.
Hans eats on the army post a lot. For free...
I'm going to take you to a philosophy lecture. Come on.
What?
- Professor Huber. He's great. - Can I go in?
Everybody does. Even the med students.
- Why are you whispering? - A habit you pick up here.
Leibniz developed the most modern concept of the state
of the seventeenth century
He turns against the summary
of a concept of the state in which the power of the rulers...
...the ruler, regardless of the form of government...
I'm glad about everyone who finds his way to Leibniz...
...and you're still too late.
The ruler is the first servant of his state
The state has to change continuously
...and developing
Goal of all politics is to create the state over and over again
To earn it
To fight for it
What is it?
Student leader Berger will speak to you now
For us to be able to continue our studies
our comrades abroad are performing heavy duties for our homeland
at the Baltic front, the Atlantic, the North Cape, and at the Nile.
Don't forget about that
As members of the students infantry
you enjoy endless advantages compared to your comrades
You, future doctors and scientists, have serious duties awaiting you...
You all live like kings and I have to live in this rabbit shed.
I don't understand you, Willi, it's very comfortable here.
And anyway...
We like it most on the post.
The door is stuck.
- Occupied! - The whorehouse is full.
- What's wrong with the door?
If we want to make pathology, we have to go.
Without me
How about going to class for a change?
- Then to Huber! - Not enough time.
- I'm going to pathology. - Me too.
- The door's stuck. - Occupied.
The whorehouse is full.
Two days for everybody.
How long are you staying?
I wrote Herta I was coming this evening, on the 6 pm train.
I want the children to still be awake.
Don't you want to sleep here?
Willi's always so alone.
What about all of you? Got any time?
Alex has to go to pathology.
- The door's stuck. - Occupied.
The whorehouse is full.
Attention! Medical corpsman Schmorell.
Graf, Scholl, in room 7 at your service sir!
Who are you?
Paramedic sergeant of the airforce in Innsbruck
Where did you get that defeatist beard?
It's gone tomorrow. Clear?
If that helps.
Vincent Hermann Matthias, do you want to be baptized?
Yes, I do.
The state itself is always the highest aim.
It is important as a condition for which the purpose
of humanity can be achieved.
This purpose of humanity is nothing but cultivation
of all powers beloved by people.
What is it?
There's coffee.
They've arrested Papa.
Luttge denounced him.
Papa's new secretary. Why?
- He said Hitler's a scourge of God. - We may catch the train.
- No. - I have a schedule.
- I still have to see Willi. - What for?
I have to tell him. That's final.
Mama needs us. She wants to go to Ulm now.
We'll go in the morning.
You eaten anything?
Sophie will make you something.
Those pigs.
It'll take time to straighten this out.
Gestapo methods.
You need someone to take care of the law office.
It's good to have you back again.
At first they didn't want to let us see him.
He looks awful. They interrogated him all night.
Fritz, what a surprise. Are you here for long?
I have to assemble a new signal corps unit.
- How long are you staying? - Till Thursday or Friday.
Tell us.
We couldn't really talk. There was always someone there.
Dr. Kraus from the chamber of commerce could help him.
We have nothing to do with Nazis.
We can't do otherwise, regarding his position.
That's what he said himself.
- Even worse. - You know something better?
Dr. Kraus is a Nazi, period!
Head-on, just like your father.
How many times did I warn him I knew it.
He only said the truth.
- That's the least we can all do. - It was enough.
It's not. We ought to write it on every wall.
Not now your dad is imprisoned.
He's right. Papa wouldn't have agreed on Dr. Kraus.
I believe it was easy when he was in prison then.
- I know what for. - Yes, you only think of yourself.
- The fear I had. - Leave it, mama.
Hans was sixteen at the time, you can't bring that up again.
That was just child's play.
- What we did at the time... - She didn't mean it.
I think if this man can do something for dad...
We don't need any charity from anyone.
- Is that clear? - Stop this topic now!
He is right.
I forgot to mention something.
A foreign student brought it to my attention that there is
still a volume by Sigmund Freud in the library.
It apparently has survived all purges.
I suggest you take it out quickly.
You'll protect the students from un-German thought.
Back to Leibniz now.
None of the great philosophic systems,
including Spinoza...
Oh, now I've mentioned Spinoza again.
Please be careful not to contaminate yourselves.
Spinoza was a Jew.
No other philosophy is so bound to the
logical presuppositions of mathematics
as is Leibniz'. The alogical as well,
the evil in the world...
Flyer from the White Rose.
Is not every honest German ashamed of this government?
...and so what becomes central to his world view
is not God or nature,
certainly not the ideal realm of mere possibilities,
but man, as the highest recognizable single being.
Group of collaborators
Rape
What's that?
Are you crazy? Leave it there.
Self-defense ... Resistance ...
- We'll hand it in. - ...if no one dares start...
...before all cities, like Cologne, are mountains of rubble.
Throw that away.
If you knew what happened today...
I'm fed up. All these dishes...
- I'll do them later. - Why you? No.
- How about tea? - Who does he think he is?
This isn't a hotel.
- Are you out of matches? - In the cupboard.
The state is never the purpose of mankind.
State - purpose - mankind.
- Empty. - I have some.
Oh, there.
Where is he?
What do you want?
- I'm expected here. - Are you one of the students?
- Heil Hitler. - Good evening.
We have a black-out. Fix that.
The block warden likes to stick his nose into mail slots.
What a surprise.
I was just about to leave.
Hans, be honest with me... What are you doing here?
I'm afraid.
What? We were practicing. The others just left.
Don't lie to me.
What are you talking about?
Why didn't you ever tell me?
How did she find out?
We live together. It was bound to happen...
- My wife doesn't know... - You don't live at home.
You only see her every few weeks.
They went through his office
They don't care about tax files...
You think they arrested him just for his remarks?
Hans, I want you to talk to me.
Searches like that are routine. What do you want anyway?
Our family is already on the Gestapo's list.
Did you forget how fast they broke up your youth group?
That was riskier. We were always on the move...
Now that they have Papa we have to be careful.
The people have to be told the truth.
In Poland 300,000 Jews were killed when the army arrived.
And put people our age in concentration camps.
- How do you know? - Eickmeyer told me. - Who?
From our studio. He's in Poland, as an engineer.
Willi was in Warsaw
last winter. You know what happened in the ghetto?
If people read our flyers maybe they'll
talk to others about what's going on.
They've become too apathetic.
Thousands are opposed. They don't know who they are.
Who has the courage to act?
Have you forgotten
Bishop Galen's secret sermons that were circulated?
How they shook us up? How we waited for them to come?
I don't know.
Hans, you've seen it yourself,
most people are afraid to even pick up the flyers.
Stop. It's my business anyway.
Someone has to take first steps.
How would people find courage otherwise?
People have the feeling they stand alone.
Look at the front lines.
Things can get cracky every moment.
Here I know what I'm fighting for.
Don't worry about things you don't understand.
Don't you have keys?
Looks like some work is going here.
A new unit has been put together.
Tomorrow I'll be in Russia.
- How nice. - What?
The new time-table.
A shot of liquor?
No thanks.
- It startet already. - Only the documentary.
- Hans, aren't you in the clinic? - What are you doing here?
- How about tea? - I can't, duty calls.
I can't help it.
I'll get in touch tonight.
Police! Police!
Look at the way you look! Go outside and wash your hands.
Stop!
Open up. We know you're in there.
I'm stuck. Damn it!
What is it? Is it because of your father?
Why did he have to say what he did?
It was right.
But not careful. Don't you understand that?
He didn't yell it out the window.
But he was still denounced.
Should I swallow what I think?
There's no point in taking on the Nazis.
We can only wait it out.
What's wrong with you, Sophie?
You took an oath to the Fuhrer. How can you wait it out?
You shoot at people.
I haven't had to shoot at anybody yet. You know that.
But you train others who have to.
We're at war. Don't you understand?
Yes, we're at war. Which side are you on?
What do you know about war?
You were never in it.
That's all for now.
- I hope I was a help. - Thank you.
May I disturb you, sir?
The postal clerk gave us an exact description.
A man in his early twenties.
He tried to buy 200 eight-pfennig stamps.
Give the description to all post offices and put pressure.
Never can one fight against the current state.
Not even a minor blow.
Sabotage. In armored and war endeavors...
Sabotage in all gatherings, and in rallies...
Haven't you thought about what it means?
Otherwise I would not have written it.
It's not just railway tracks or train cars...
or ammunition depots. It will hurt people too.
I can't support this.
That's violence, you understand?
Thousands of people are killed every day.
Everywhere.
What's wrong with this violence?
As long as you don't do anything
to really put an end to it
you too bear responsability for these deaths.
Violence is not within our means.
You think we can do anything about it?
Only the armed forces are able to abolish the nazis.
Do we have to wait for that?
You think it will just happen?
Our goal is spiritual resistance.
That won't do much.
Other groups need to form.
More and more. A huge network.
We were just about to get in touch with other states.
Are you going off your heads?
- Who plans all this? - It's good for me.
Why are we printing these flyers?
For people to recline?
Something must be done.
May I ventilate my opinion here?
Or did you already decide on everything?
Nonsense. Of course you can...
I won't deliver paper for such flyers.
What you want is more than we can handle.
You were almost caught for a few stamps and you want to
help build up other groups.
Then we won't send any more flyers by mail.
Are you starting now too?
Then we might as well stop now.
If we want to reach certain people, then how else?
If we expand our work we'll be exposed to more danger.
The people we want to contact are all dependable.
Some people out of Willi's old youth group.
I know some people in Ulm.
And we want to talk to Huber.
Why Huber?
- Huber? - Why not?
Should he organize stamps?
Willi, you're wrong about Huber.
At least he opens his mouth.
I still don't understand why we should go to him.
What are you doing?
We made precise arrangements, or?
And now... I don't want to participate in violent action.
It's the flyer.
It won't work.
This way I can't deliver.
We have thought about it too.
For me this is exactly the limit.
Let him.
Stop that jingling please.
- I know what's going on. - I told you to forget about it.
Maybe you want to listen to me.
I want to support you.
This is so sudden.
You must understand.
Count me in.
Please, be sensible, it's enough that we're constantly
You mean it's too dangerous. It's not for women.
- Nobody said that... - But thought it.
Yes, it's too dangerous for you.
I should forget what I know.
Can you tell me how to do that?
You'll thank me someday.
Slow down please.
Eight notes.
- Stay here! - Leave her alone!
- We'll take it to the police. - Are you crazy?
Who would send you that? What if it's a trap?
Somebody finally says what everybody thinks.
It's not enough that the Gestapo comes to your lectures.
- This should be typed and circulated. - Involving us!
You don't have to reproach yourself.
What do I do? Aesthetics of music,
logic, theory of knowledge.
While thousands die, as everything breaks down.
- But you can't prevent it. - I know that.
We came to see you for a particular reason.
We found this in the university and...
What do I have to do with it?
We talked about it and we wanted to talk to someone
I was sent this today.
- What do you think of it? - It could give people courage.
It could, that's true.
We thought these people should be supported.
- You mean passing flyers on? - For example.
Perhaps one should.
But look how limited the circulation is.
And the risk when you compare it with what it achieves.
- Whom do you want to reach?
The millions who still eat up the words of our Fuhrer?
Professor, you must...
I see it in my colleagues.
They all try to find something good in it. Pure opportunism.
And the others buried themselves in their work.
And don't want to know anything.
This is a beginning.
What's to be changed by well-meant appeals?
Wash your hands.
Supper's almost ready.
First, most of the distribution is done by mail.
It must be possible to find out what their system is.
Secondly, here is a list of the recipients.
Teachers, doctors, professors, etc.
It has not yet been evaluated well enough.
Thirdly, where is the paper coming from?
These large amounts of envelopes.
That's it...
And intensify the checks at all post offices.
- 50 eight-pfennig stamps. - How many?
- 50. - Why so many?
A death in the family.
Just a moment.
How much is the postage?
You probably want to write a few words. 8 pfennigs, Miss.
- Is there a cheaper way? - A printed matter. 3 pfennigs.
But you can't write anything.
- Then I'll take both. - How many do you need?
50 of each.
Can you open up?
"And do not forget the little villains of the system."
"Remember their names so that none of them escape."
"So that it is impossible for them
to change sides at the last minute
and act as if nothing has happened."
I'll make some more.
By the way, I brought something.
I thank you, my colleagues.
As you all know,
pieces of slanderous writing have turned up lately.
People unknown to us have maligned the achievements of
the party, and the great successes of our Fuhrer and his army.
Naturally, these flyers were turned in to my office.
Whereby the students fuhrer was of great assistance.
In the name of the faculty, I've expressed our disgust at
incidents to the Gauleiter.
- A friend of my father's. - Does he know anything?
I talked to her alone.
2nd floor, land registry.
The stairway. This is the cupboard the paper is in.
Here's the coat room.
- I thought Sophie... - Are you crazy?
- Why Sophie? - Only women work there.
Do you want to dress up like a secretary?
- Not Sophie? - You could trust her a little more.
That's where the pipe broke. They had to tear the wall open.
- Where to? -Land registry. -2nd floor.
Mondays the motorists.
Tuesdays the cyclists.
Wednesdays the pedestrians.
Thursdays the bomber pilots.
- Hey, an alarm! - Sundays the air raid wardens.
- You sure are well dressed. - What's happened?
Off to the eastern front next week.
It's strange. It's like peacetime. Everything keeps going.
I'm scared of the future.
You don't let me share your life.
I only have moments with you.
I know.
Sure, and now you're going to Russia.
Look, Traute, it's only for 3 months.
We'll be back for the winter semester.
Things are so uneven between us.
Everything is the way you want it.
Come on, let's not talk about it now.
See, that's just what I mean.
Hold it! Traute move your hand.
- I'm already homesick.
Have fun in Hamburg.
So, except for the postal clerk, no clues.
A loner?
I don't think so.
In the meantime, we have over 1000 copies of the 4th flyer.
There's more to it than
a few carbon copies and slogans on walls.
There's an organized group behind it. -Communists?
Sabotage in all factories supporting the war effort...
Sabotage, sabotage... - What about that communist group
around Joseph Romer and Uhrig?
There could be some of them left. It's possible.
I don't think so.
It sounds like it comes more from the Catholic corner.
Communists don't write like that.
Whoever doubts the existence of demonic powers
has not understood the metaphysics of this war.
Demons have always been lurking in the darkness...
There have never been any organized Catholic groups.
What now?
A man in Berlin wants results.
Combatants in our area have failed to...
We get wounded from the Donetz front daily.
We don't have enough surgeons
to perform operations we don't know how to do.
Our ways of helping are limited.
I think of father often...
I'm glad you're with your mother.
Must you work in a munitions factory instead of a hospital?
- I didn't have a choice. - Don't they treat you well?
They treat us all right.
Time's up.
Your father will get it.
But first it has to be checked.
Do it like this.
So you can use your right hand.
Stop.
What's going on?
Stop!
They're asking for the ladder.
What does he want with that Russian?
From the opposite site...
We got enough casualties of our own.
What are you bringing in?
What should we do with him? - Hospital.
Disinfection please.
- Do you know about infusion? - I try.
All scrap.
Party for the Russians.
With the intention to lock.
What are you looking at?
Come on. Fast.
Why are you here?
I got to leave soon.
My train leaves in four hours.
How the Russians defend themselves
in the weapon factory.
Most of them only produce defects.
So if the grenades don't work...
Hitler won't lose his skin, but we do.
Only if we lose the war can we get rid of nazis.
I'd like to know where you learn these things?
Don't treat me like a little girl.
I don't know who you really are.
If we don't see each other for a while.
I think of all possibilities.
Don't you like me no more?
I don't mean it that way.
Now you're sweet.
When I shut up?
No, so cuddly.
Yes, when I look up to you.
I have only a few hours left.
Aren't you happy I'm here?
Absolutely.
Sorry about earlier.
It's my fault.
Now the time is up...
and we haven't got anything from each other.
What is it with you?
Nothing.
Are you crying?
You could have told me something.
You're cute with that crown.
Don't make me look ridiculous.
Come on, don't take it so serious.
That's how I am.
It isn't funny.
How the front really looks like.
That should be on the flyers.
The men tell what goes on when they get home.
You think they...
- My tobacco? - Yes.
The people see what's happening.
But they're afraid of
what the Nazis have done everywhere.
That the same is in store for us if the war is lost.
That's what most are scared of.
That's why they cling to the Nazis. - Quiet.
What is it?
- I don't understand it. - Radio Moscow.
Resistance groups in Berlin...
Gestapo... Lieutenant Boysen.
Arvid... Arvid Harnack.
- What?! - Tell me
I know him. I know him through Lilo.
- What about him? - Be quiet!
He is arrested in Berlin.
But that can't be him. Resistance group.
Lieutenant Schultze-Boysen and Arvid Harnack.
Resistance to fascism and alleged espionage.
And you know him?
Yes, Lilo and Arvid Harnack's brother are very close friends.
Can you talk to Lilo?
Go over the bridge.
That's a ten kilometer detour.
- We have seriously wounded. - I can't let you through.
Here's one dying.
Get going and fast.
Stop. What are you doing here?
- We have severely wounded. - Go.
What's going on there?
Nothing. Just some farmers.
It's all right.
They're shooting prisoners.
If I don't do it, others will do.
And you'll do this to our people too?
Yes, that can happen too.
"Work service, we love you. So many shitty things to do."
- This is Traute. - Gisela Schertling.
We had work service together.
Today is a beautiful day. I have both of you together.
Let's go to the cafeteria.
What are you studying?
Do your parents know?
Your sister?
Excuse me, but I,
first I have to... this is...
Who else is involved? Do I know them?
Schmorell, Graf, and Christoph Probst.
Why didn't you speak openly to me before?
- Didn't you trust me? - Yes, we did.
But you must understand. You were so unreceptive at first.
And what do you expect of me now?
Scholl, I'm still against it.
What can flyers accomplish even if widely circulated?
Thousands die in Russia daily.
Our cities are becoming ruins, one after the other.
You want to stop that with flyers?
No, we have to go a step further.
Scholl, how? We have no means to it.
An intervention by the army would be our only hope.
If you feel the least bit of responsibility for your friends,
then I beg you to stop.
- You believe in an army coup? - I don't believe in anything.
Even with a coup in Berlin,
everything here, the police, the radio, the railroad...
would still be held by the Nazis.
What are you planning? To collect weapons?
Why not? It's inevitable in the long run.
Whether it's up to us is...
Air raid alarm, Professor.
Then let's go.
- Oh, it just moved. - Show me.
Can I join this course?
I'll make a few more sandwiches.
Are you coming?
- Come on, let's make a snowman. - Yes, a snowman.
Listen, Harnack agreed. Lilo has arranged a meeting.
- Have you talked to him? - No.
He's expecting us at noon Saturday.
In a hotel in Chemnitz.
We can take the night train.
I've already told you I think it's too great a risk.
It's too dangerous.
I know it by heart now.
Connections to other groups, fine, even in Berlin.
But not with people the Gestapo is keeping an eye on.
How do you know that?
They don't dare with the army.
Not yet.
We don't even know if he can do anything for us.
His brother's group knows people up to the army's top.
He's in jail now.
It's our only opportunity.
Why are you so silent?
Last summer, when Lilo told me...
what happened in Munich, I could hardly believe it.
- Please give her my greetings. - I will.
Are you stationed in Chemnitz?
At the moment, yes, unfortunately.
But I go to Berlin on weekends as often as I can.
I don't get a pass so I go in civilian clothes.
Of course.
How's your brother?
You can imagine.
Sorry.
What the Gestapo does in their cellars is unimaginable.
I know...
He's still there.
So is his wife as well as the others in the group.
They're not allowed lawyers.
The SS demanded that I arrange their personal matters.
Officially, they're away on a business trip.
I was allowed to see him twice. They tortured him.
In the meantime we've expanded quite a bit.
There are other groups who want to support us.
And what can I do for you?
Well, we thought...
you might help us...
contact a resistance group in the army.
In the higher echelons of the army.
You can imagine that my present situation is not easy.
I'll give it a try.
Fritz, how sweet...
He wrote me. He's in Stalingrad now.
Hans brought it with him.
I know, he showed it to me. I've already burned my fingers.
- What was he doing in Chemnitz? - Visiting an uncle.
He didn't tell me.
- Gisela, what a surprise. - How's your uncle?
I called you because I can't get all this off my mind.
I'm asking you to think everything over again.
- Now you're disappointed, aren't you? - Yes.
You just don't want to believe how isolated you all are.
Your activities are pointless.
You will be needed when something decisive happens.
We are in contact with the army.
We'll be meeting soon with people from the general staff.
My God, Scholl. Be careful.
But we have another problem.
We can't keep printing. We're out of paper.
- And you thought I could... - Yes.
You as Professor have better access to paper.
Ridiculously little.
But I know someone...
Come to my office tomorrow afternoon.
I have an idea.
I'll warm up the kohlrabi. There's enough.
What are you doing here? What's going on?
- You tell me. - You got the flyers?
I brought them from the university.
From the university? That many?
And what is this?
And this?
My God, Traute.
- That's what I'm good enough for. - Don't you understand?
We wanted to spare you this constant fear, damn it.
Where is he? We have to start.
When is Herta supposed to have a baby?
In ten days. But you can't depend on the doctors.
If I ever have a baby I just want a midwife.
Tell me if Traute becomes involved in this...
We could have at least talked about it...
Greetings from Huber.
Put that away.
Huber is terrific.
The coming Germany can only be federal
Freeing of the labour class through smart socialism
Every nation, every person has right to the fruits of the earth
What are you writing? New matrice...
It changes this way...
I just changed it.
A new freedom...
Should be up there.
We said we would...
You shouldn't have changed it, damn it.
You students, gentlemen, are standing in the breakers
feeling the pounding of the waves of a new era.
As the intellectual vanguard on all fronts of our fatherland...
Women sit up in the balcony.
...you have a constant duty as the representatives...
...of all of us.
That is why I address the female student body.
With all due respect to your industry, ladies,
the German university is not a place
for good daughters to evade duties of the fatherland.
It would be much better
if the women students would think of their duties...
and present our Fuhrer each school year
with a degree in the form of a healthy son.
You go to the front!
We have the same right to study!
Keep quiet. We're not in a Jewish school.
- Shut up! - Quiet.
- You didn't put the pin in. - I didn't even touch it.
- Stop fighting. - Sure.
- Now you've really done it. - Quiet.
We need a piece of very nice fabric.
I can understand if some girls think
they have to study because they're not pretty enough
to find an admirer.
But I can reassure you, ladies.
I can gladly assign you one of my aides.
And I can promise you a pleasant experience.
She was the first one to yell.
Let the girls go.
So, this is your obedience to the Fuhrer.
Fabric.
Whoever protects enemies of the people is one too.
Nazis out!
Revolt. Student uproar, you did it!
They didn't let him finish his speech.
I'm telling you.
Police...
and they had to let everybody go.
You can't imagine it.
May I ask where Gisela...
What is this?
I spoke about it with her.
We can't do this.
If things are like Gisela says, we must stop our activities.
Wait until everything's calmed down?
But we're so close.
They'll strike back and we'll run right into the knife.
People in other cities are also waiting for the flyers.
I'm going home. I'm tired.
Come on, we have to get the flyers out.
People are waiting for them. In Hamburg, Ulm, Berlin.
That's right.
You want to take hundreds of flyers by train?
Precisely now?
Coming from Insbruck I was checked 3 times.
In the future they will have a press and we won't have to go.
Do you seriously want to take one to Saarbrucken?
If I can get one.
- On that train? - I know it's dangerous.
I dream about our childhood a lot now.
The flyers.... your backpack can't be in your compartment.
Remember how you taught me to swim?
What was that?
I keep worrying about you recently.
The flyers for Hamburg...
Isn't it too risky in Traute's baggage?
Wouldn't it be better to mail it?
That would be more dangerous for them.
But for Sophie to have a whole backpack full...
Yes?
Go on alone.
- The winter is over. - Of course.
Just a second.
The soldiers need blankets.
The less blankets the sooner the war is over.
- What about Fritz' cold feet? - Even so...
- Greetings to your friends. - And to yours.
You got to promise me that.
Your backpack and you are in separate compartments.
That's the limit. Foreigners occupying seats.
Those people have to work hard too.
You, get up.
The foreigner's sitting here very relaxed...
And our people have to stand.
Your papers, please. Open up the suitcase.
- Do you have any luggage? - That suitcase.
- Where are you going? - Ulm.
What's in the backpack? My papers?
- What's in it? - Lots of things.
Let's have a look.
My wife packed my suitcase. Want me to open it?
You're under arrest. Did you think we wouldn't see this?
Go on over there.
- I'm thirsty. - You had half an apple.
- I want something to drink. - Me too.
Leave papers!
Can I see your leave papers?
Go on in. Travel orders.
Travel orders!
- Where are you going? - Saarbrucken.
So, this stays here. That's less conspicuous.
I can tell the few doctors who come in.
I have them all under control. They're all okay.
You know my brother? He has everything under control.
Do not believe the Nazi propaganda...
that has filled you with fear of the Bolshevists...
- Not so loud. - In Saarbrucken everybody's asleep by 10pm.
Tell me,
about the weapons.
What's the situation?
He always has some on the side.
I have a source too.
- We talked about it a lot but... - You're opposed.
No, of course not. But at the moment...
We're a small group.
We have to concentrate on the flyers.
It takes time to stockpile weapons.
Don't believe my brother.
We have everything under control... We send them.
- Did you see your parents already? - I can't.
He's here and doesn't visit his family.
- They'd just be afraid. - Sleep at my place.
Say, did you travel without permission?
No leave papers?
My dear boy.
You can go until the Black Sea with this.
And your friends too.
We estimate, more than 3000 were distributed in Munich.
In the university, theatres, entrances of buildings.
1500 letters were sent to us from Vienna, Salzburg and Linz.
As well as Augsburg, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt.
Altogether almost 6000.
There may be a close connection to the university.
We're thinking of the recent disruption.
I want evidence from you, visible results.
Have you taken measures at the university?
We thought...
Offer the university personnel a reward.
Say three thousand. To get the criminals.
The High Command of the army announces:
The battle for Stalingrad has come to an end.
The valorous Sixth Army,
under the leadership of General Field Marshall Paulus,
has succumbed to the enemy
and the unfavorable conditions.
Their fate was shared by the air force flank division,
two Rumanian divisions and a Croatian regiment,
soldiers who, with their comrades in the German army
did their duty to the utmost.
Under the flag of the swastika...
They died so Germany could live.
That doesn't mean anything. Fritz can still make it.
FREEDOM
Fellow students.
Our country is deeply moved by the debacle in Stalingrad.
300,000...
300,000 German men...
...sent by our brilliant Fuhrer
into needless death and destruction.
Our Fuhrer, we thank you.
Some people are coming, hurry.
Harnack's here. Hans met him at the station.
I'll tell Huber.
Keep moving.
No stopping!
There's nothing to see.
Remove it. You're in the way.
- Remove that. - Not understand.
Who writes things like that?
- Please keep moving. - Not understand.
The problem is that the gen- erals who are opposed to Hitler
have other interests. They still want to win.
If things go well on the front, they'll keep fighting.
Even though it's plain to see we're headed for defeat.
Anyway, even the army expects an invasion.
And you can say with certainty that a coup...
The coup is planned, that's certain.
But when the generals will finally act...
There is an offer from the Soviet Union for a ceasefire.
Two conditions: Germans must get rid of the Nazi leadership.
And the cessation of hostilities.
We have to change our work. The time has come.
But, Hans, the way you imagine things...
- Time's short! - Expand your contacts.
That's important especially to other resistance groups.
To the churches, social democrats, communists.
And the non-practising church. I could help you there.
How would such a collaboration look like?
Every group has self- responsability.
Sure.
But a secure connection between groups is necessary.
Now's the time to connect powers.
Collaborating with the communists?
What does that matter now?
The war must be ended.
All people against Nazis need to unite.
No!
I resist any collaboration with Bolshevists.
It'll only worsen things.
They operate mostly in this area here on Ludwigstrasse.
Between the Siegestor and Theresienstrasse.
Ludwigstrasse has few intersecting streets.
Here, at the Siegestor, on Vetarinarstr., on Schellingstr.,
these lanes here between the church and the library,
and on Theresienstr,
is where my men will stand watch starting tonight.
Thanks again.
- In Berlin, February 25th, 6pm. - The Memorial Church.
Alternative time, 7 pm.
Take care.
If that works out with Berlin...
I have to say, this Harnack...
What is it?
I won't permit this change.
We agreed that only the army...
We're very thankful for your flyer, Professor, but...
We can't print a sentence like that.
What's wrong with it?
Place all authority in our glorious armed forces.
What don't you like about it?
We can only depend on a few people in the armed forces.
Our armed forces aren't so glorious.
No, Scholl.
That's where we disagree.
You go to the Port of Victory.
Is it because they almost caught you?
I don't know.
Did Traute call?
This pressure all the time.
I'd like to let myself go just once.
Often, when I'm alone, I have this empty feeling.
It's like I'm dead.
I'd like to experience something nice.
- What's her name? - Katja.
- Does she look like you? - I hope not.
Three children... that would make me afraid.
- In these times? - What else am I living for?
The circumstances demand, uh, the
ceremonies of the occasion.
To the children!
Will Huber continue even if the sentence is out?
I hope so. It's still his flyer.
I've written something too.
Great! Our next flyer.
- Well... - Now we're going!
In the university first, together.
- Then the main post office... - I'll do the cathedral.
Well, but the university first.
- You're taking that with you now? - It's safest on me.
We ought to go home empty.
It's late. The lectures will be over in 2 minutes.
That's them! Stop!
- You're under arrest. - What do you want?
Come with me.
"Party leaders in bizarre rituals."
"Stupid Fuhrer society."
"Master racists."
"Female students insulted by the Gauleiter with dirty jokes."
- Thank you, Dr. Wust. - You have to thank Mr. Schmidt.
I only did my duty.
Stand up.
- Is that your suitcase? - Yes.
Coming out of our lecture this man said "you're under arrest."
You went to the lecture with a suitcase?
We wanted to go home. To Ulm.
- With an empty suitcase? - For laundry.
We wanted to pick up clean sheets.
Is this your writing?
Somebody supposedly handed you this?
You didn't go to the authorities with it?
I haven't read it yet.
- Doesn't it interest you? - It does.
- Why? - Why not?
Infamous slander of the Fuhrer. You support that?
I told you I haven't read it yet.
- So, you went to Prof. Huber's lecture? - I already said so.
But you study medicine.
Philosophy interests me.
- Then why did you leave early? - We wanted to catch a train.
At what time?
11:40
What exit did you use?
The side exit.
- Then how did you get on the stairs? - I wasn't.
So? But the superintendent saw you there.
How could he? We were in the lecture.
- I thought you left early? - Yes.
- Then he did see you. - No.
Then, why were you among the others when he arrested you?
They caught up with us.
We're not getting anywhere.
Three sheets of 8-pfennig stamps.
And 168 five-pfennig stamps.
Over 200 envelopes.
When I need some the stores don't have any, so I kept them.
That many?
Who do you write to so zealously?
My parents, my sisters, my brother Werner.
Where are your sisters?
- In Ulm. - And your brother.
Eastern Front.
Large family.
And you send them so much "printed matter"?
Slanderous flyers against our Fuhrer as our soldiers fight?
Your brother is on the front.
What would he say?
I didn't distribute any flyers.
Funny, exactly that many flyers fit in your suitcase.
Many suitcases are that size.
Stop it. Your brother confessed.
Did you know about it?
What?
We found the printing press.
You're still young.
If you disapprove of what your brother did...
but didn't know who to turn to...
You're sticking to your family but there are limits.
You couldn't have found something we don't have.
You say someone handed you this handwritten flyer.
Who?
I don't know him. I told you that.
Perhaps Christoph Probst?
I haven't seen him for months.
But he wrote you.
Isn't this his handwriting?
Yes.
And this too?
I wrote that.
All of a sudden.
So you wrote this disgusting draft for a flyer that was
prevented from being circulated.
- You ought not mention God. - Your conduct, it suits you.
You subvert the front and now you're insolent.
Many think like us.
- They just don't dare say it. - Shut up!
Those who slander National Socialism don't belong to us.
Whoever insults the Fuhrer like this...
Somebody has to start. We're only the beginning.
Such shameless, infamous people only deserve death.
Your heads will roll too.
Isn't it wonderful that Werner is back?
So he can be at the trial.
I brought you some candy.
I haven't even had lunch yet.
We've asked for pardon.
If we can stay alive for eight more weeks, it'll all be over.
- The allied invasion... - No whispering!
Time's up.
Eight weeks...
Sophie, have faith in Jesus.
But you too.
You have to edge away.
Today?
In two hours.
The chaplain is waiting for you.
Actually, this is strictly prohibited.
Two minutes.
Me?
1. According to the concept of law, the paragraphs leading to
the conviction of members of the WHITE ROSE,
were not part of the Nazi terror system but common law.
2. Resistance fighters like the WHITE ROSE were violating
rules that were in place at the time.
3. A justice at the people's court was subjected to these rules.
4. Resistance fighters couldn't be legally convicted,
if their aim was to help their country.
5. A justice, thinking that a resistance fighter could be
convicted properly according to lawful procedure, and sentence
him to death, cannot be accused in hindsight.
6. Until now, no federal government has decided upon
undoing these lawful convictions.