Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Statements by Robert Felsinger, active in labor camps in the Lublin area during the war, 1963

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Statements by Robert Felsinger, active in labor camps in the Lublin area during the war, 1963 Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt": - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) in 1947 (Vg8 6771/47); - Main part of the investigation conducted by Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) from 1956 (11a Vr 1382/56) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) from 1962 (27c Vr 852/62); - Final investigation conducted by Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), 1962-1971 (25 Vr 3123/71); - Transfer of the files to the various courts and emendation of the signatures, as well as commencement of various other trials against other Austrian war criminals during the investigation; - Copying of the documents at Landesgericht Klagenfurt and transfer of the copies to Yad Vashem. The overall arrangement of the files includes three kinds of volumes: - General volumes containing general administrational information regarding the trial, indexes and collections; - Appendix volumes containing statements and information from trials dealing with similar cases from Germany, mostly from Hamburg; - Main volumes containing documentation, statements and correspondence from the trial. This file is part of a General Volume; it contains the testimony of Robert Felsinger in Salzburg, 27 July 1963. Testimony of Robert Felsinger in Salzburg, 27 July 1963: - Born 27 March 1917, a resident of Salzburg; - A member of the SS Verfuegungstruppe (SS VT- SS Dispositional Troops), April 1938-late 1941; - Assignment in Lublin: responsibility for the organization of food for the labor camps, and for transport of clothing taken from murdered Jews; - Testimony regarding the liquidation of the labor camps near Lublin: claim that he did not witness the shootings personally; denial of participation in shootings or knowledge concerning the extermination camps; - Description of his work in a storage depot at 27 Chopina Street; ordered by Odilo Globocnik and Georg Wippern to organize food for 14,000 Jews in the Poniatowa camp; - Description of the liquidation of the Flughafen Lager (13,000 inmates) in Lublin; - Testimony regarding some members of the HSSPF Lublin (pp.2-17; 20-24). Documents, including a rogatory letter regarding the criminal proceedings against Robert Felsinger (pp.18-19).