May 16 - May 28, 1942.
Hans Scholl’s new room at Mandl Strasse 1.
Willi Graf: Relationship with Fritz Leist and Emil Martin. Abscessed tooth.
Gisela Schertling’s homecoming visit to her high school in Spetzgart and physical issues.
Scholls’ Pentecost together: Inge’s visit to Hans and Sophie Scholl in Munich. Hans and Inge to Vorderriβ. Scholl siblings’ hike to Geislingen.
Willi Graf: Thoughts of Russian front. Correspondence with Marita Herfeldt.
White Rose History, Volume II, pages 24-27.
Notes and references
Hans Scholl’s new room:
Alexander Berrsche was the pseudonym of Alexander Lösch, April 3, 1883 – July 14, 1940. – For more information about Alexander Berrsche’s work, Google his name. Modern musicologists still quote his critiques of early twentieth century performances. - Throughout this volume, I refer to Maria by her married name of Lösch.
The barracks were located at Bergmann Str. 36. That short street ends about two blocks from the current location of the beginning of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Autobahn, near Westend Park.
Knoop-Graf, Anneliese and Jens, Inge (Eds.). Willi Graf: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1994. Information about barracks.
ZC13267, Volume I. 2/20/1943 interrogation of Maria Berrsche (Gestapo naming).
Willi Graf and Fritz Leist-Emil Martin; abscessed tooth:
Knoop-Graf, Anneliese and Jens, Inge (Eds.). Willi Graf: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1994.
Vielhaber, Klaus. Gewalt und Gewissen: Willi Graf und die “Weisse Rose.” Würzburg: Echter-Verlag, 1963.
Gisela Schertling’s Pentecost:
ZC13267, Volume 15/1. 4/2/1943 interview of Paul and Charlotte Schertling.
ZC13267, Volume 15/2. 4/7/1943 letter from Gisela Schertling’s attorney Karl Götz to the People’s Court.
Scholls’ Pentecost together:
Either Sophie never mentioned Inge’s visit in her diary or letters, or Inge censored whatever she said. The only things we know about it come from Inge, Magdalena, and Robert Scholl in 1943, when they reminisced about Pentecost a year ago, and from Hans Scholl’s one-sentence statement about the trip to Vorderriβ with Inge during a Gestapo interrogation transcript. Sophie’s voice is heard only when she gave the “failed” portrait to Lisa Remppis as a 1942 Christmas present (more about that in later chapters).
My first trip to Germany was in June 1973. I landed in Brussels, planning to catch the first train to Munich. Since Pentecost isn’t a big deal in Texas, I was unprepared for the rush of people. Not only could I not take the first train out. By the time I could get a ticket agent to sell me a ticket at all, I wound up sitting on my luggage behind the kitchen in the dining car, all the way from Brussels to Cologne! Needless to say, I quickly learned what Germans and Europeans think of the long Pentecost holiday!
Vorderriβ is worth the drive from Munich. It’s in the Karwendel mountains.
Aicher-Scholl, Inge. Sippenhaft: Nachrichten und Botschaften der Familie in der Gestapo-Haft nach der Hinrichtung von Hans und Sophie Scholl. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, 1993.
ZC13267, Volume 2. 2/21/1943 interrogation of Hans Scholl.
Willi Graf’s thoughts of Russia and correspondence with Marita Herfeldt:
Knoop-Graf, Anneliese and Jens, Inge (Eds.). Willi Graf: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1994. Information about barracks.
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