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

We're at Staddleheim Prison in Munich.

This grim, grey 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, Staddleheim has become a repository for opponents

of the regime.

It's definitely not somewhere you'd want to end up.

In a room of the main cell block, three young people sit around.

They share a cigarette, smiling, cracking morbid jokes.

They either clock as its hands tick round to the hour.

Their names are Hans and Sophie Scholl, a brother and sister, aged 24 and 21.

And their friend, Christoph Props, aged 23, all are students at the University of Munich.

And they're crying, the reason they're here, handing out flyers on campus, albeit one's

critical of the government.

In which translates in Nazi Germany as high treason.

At one point the shells 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

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