It's February the 22nd, 1943, just before 5 p.m.

We're at Stadlheim prison in Munich.

This grim, gray jail is one of the largest in Germany.

In 1922, an inmate named Adolf Hitler spent a month here for common assault. Now, under his Nazis, Stadlheim has become a repository

for opponents of the regime. It's definitely not somewhere you'd want to end up. In a room off the main

cell block, three young people sit around. They share a cigarette, smiling, cracking morbid jokes. They eye the

clock as its hands ticked round to the hour. Their names are Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister,

aged 24 and 21, and their friend Christoph Probst, age 23.

All are students at the University of Munich.

And their crime, the reason they're here, handing out flyers on campus, albeit one's critical of the

government, something which translates in Nazi Germany as high treason.

At one point the shoals were dutiful Nazis,

but the scales fell from their eyes some time ago.

They are part of a clandestine movement called the White Rose.

This regime, Hitler's regime, is one they can no longer support.

Fellow students, the nation is profoundly shaken by the defeat of our troops at Stalingrad,

reads their latest pamphlet.

330,000 Germans have been senselessly

irresponsibly led to death and destruction

through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War I.

Our furor, we thank you.

The three activists had taken great care to preserve their identities as they distributed the leaflets around the university,

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