ARCHIVAL SOURCES
Gestapo Interrogation Transcripts:
Bundesarchiv Potsdam
Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf
Staatsarchiv München
Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg
MAJOR NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES
Münchener Abendzeitung, 25 Feb. 1968.
New York Times, 18 Apr., 25 Apr., 2 Aug., 21 Aug., 1943.
Stern, Feb. 1968.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1 Nov. 1946.
PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
Clara Huber Dr. and Mrs. Erich Schmorell
Birgit Weiss-Huber Katharina Schüddekopf
Franz Müller Michael Verhoeven
Dr. Leo Samberger
STATEMENTS, REPORTS, RECOLLECTIONS, AND LETTERS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE WHITE ROSE, INSTITUT FÜR ZEITGESCHICHTE, MUNICH
Josef Fürtmeier Traute Lafrenz
Hubert Fürtwangler Robert Mohr
Else Gebel Angelika Probst
Wilhelm Geyer Gestapo Officer Rechtsteiner
Günther Groll Gisela Schertling
Lisa Grote Jakob Schmid
Heinrich Guter Inge Scholl
Falk Harnack Herta Siebler Probst
Helmut Hartert Josef Söhngen
Karl Hepperle Jürgen Wittenstein
A Oneworld Book
First published in the USA as Shattering the German Night, 1986
The revised, expanded international edition first published by Oneworld Publications, 2006, revised again 2007
This ebook edition published 2018
Copyright © Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn 1986, 2006, 2018
Foreword copyright © Studs Terkel, 2006
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ISBN 978-1-78607-250-4
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The publishers are very grateful to George Wittenstein for permission to reproduce the photographs on Plates 2–3, 4–9, 12–13 & 15. Copyright © George Jürgen Wittenstein, 1942. The publishers would also like to thank Dr Wolfgang Huber for permission to reproduce the photograph of Professor Huber, and would like to express their sincere gratitude to Ursula Kaufmann, at the White Rose Stiftung, who granted permission to reproduce the photograph of the Main Courtroom on Plate 12 and the metal leaflets on Plate 16 (Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V). The publishers are grateful to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who gave us permission to reproduce the RAF flyer on Plate 1, courtesy of William Kaczynski. The German Federal Archive kindly gave us permission to reproduce photographs on Plates 2–3 & Alexander Schmorell, Professor Huber and Willi Graf on Plate 11 (R 3018 (alt NJ)/1704 Bd. 12 & 13) & the telegram on Plate 13 (R3017/34635, Bd. 11). The Stadtarchiv München gave us permission to reproduce the photographs on Plates 10–11 & Willi Graf on 11 (R3018 (altnj) /1704, Bd. 14). The guillotine on Plate 14 comes courtesy of Alamy (DPA36E). The stamp on Plate 16 comes from Jud Newborn’s personal collection. The publishers have made every reasonable effort to identify and contact the owners of the copyright to the photographs included in this book, and to attribute copyright accordingly. Any errors are accidental and will be corrected in future printings upon advice to the publisher.
The authors are grateful to Bund Verlag for permission to use their own translation of a poem by Eugen Nerdinger appearing in “Halts Maul—sonst kommst nach Dachau!” edited by Sabine Asgodom. The authors are grateful to Harper & Row for permission to reprint the following material: Excerpts from The Short Life of Sophie Scholl by Hermann Vinke, translated by Hedwig Pachter. Copyright © 1980 by Otto Maier Verlag Ravensburg. English translation copyright © 1984 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Special permission granted by Harper & Row to the authors to use their own translation. Excerpts from the book Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl: Letters and Notes, edited by Inge Jens. Copyright © 1984 by Fischer Verlag. English-language translation published by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., December 1986. Special permission granted by Harper & Row to the authors to use their own translation.
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