Leaflets against Dictatorship – The ‘White Rose’ and 18 February 1943

He was only doing his duty, said Jakob Schmid, the former custodian of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, when asked about his actions on 18 February 1943 before the military tribunal in Nuremberg. While walking through the university building on that Thursday morning he saw the two students Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans sending a shower of leaflets down into the atrium. It was the last leaflet of the resistance group known as the ‘White Rose’ (Weisse Rose). Thomas Jander, curator of the documents collection, describes how the Scholl siblings and their supporters used leaflets to rebel against dictatorship 75 years ago.