After graduation from the high school he did work service in Göppingen. In November he began to military service in Bad Cannstatt. Because of work in the Bundnic Youth he was arrested. Hans soon noticed that the NSDAP and the Hitler Youth were bad and scary. In 1938 after ending military training Hans began studying medicine placement. In 1939 he got to know Alexander Schmorrel (1917-1943) and Christoph Propst (1919-1943). With these new friends he started the group "White Rose". In May 1940 he was a paramedic in France. In 1942 Willi Graf (1918-1943) joined the White Rose. They printed the first panphlets. With that, they said that the NSDAP and Adolf Hitler are bad for humans. They got these messages to millions of people. But Hans Scholl and his employees were on the 22 February 1943 taken and executed.