Things we know from those White Rose expense reports

When the historical record includes boring things like expense reports, we gain valuable data points that affect the story.

Justizpalast [Palace of Justice], 1930. Location of First White Rose trial on 2/22/1943. Public domain.

If nothing else, those Reich accountants kept solid records. We’ve already seen that the Gestapo crime lab was unhappy with BMW’s shoddy inventory controls. The accounting files for the three White Rose trials extensively document behind-the-scenes operations, as well as provide data points that nail down critical events related to the investigation and trials.