Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Statements by Othmar Egger, active in Lublin during the war, 1962 - 1966

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Statements by Othmar Egger, active in Lublin during the war, 1962 - 1966 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 containing a collection of testimonies of Othmar Egger. Testimony of Othmar Egger: - Born in Klagenfurt, 13 June 1912; - Arrival in Lublin to work as a technician, autumn 1942; work in the Planungs- und Forschungsstelle (planning and research department) where he drafted farm houses under the direction of Jürgen Laßmann; the only people he remembers from the SSPF Lublin are Ernst Lerch and Susitti; transfer to Trieste to work as a draftsman, 1943; transfer to the Hochgebirgsschule Neustift im Stubaital alpine school, November 1943; - Questions regarding his work in Poland and whether he was in the Bialystok camp; denial that he was in the Bialystok camp.