All language subtitles for Die weisse Rose Michael Verhoeven, (1982) ENG

"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.