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; protocol from the trial of Franz Hoedl

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 Franz Hoedl, 1963 - 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; it contains statements by Franz Hoedl, born 01/08/1905, resident of Linz; he worked as a driver at the Hartheim euthanasia site and in Sobibor. Statement from 30 March 1963: - Detailed information regarding the structure of the Sobibor camp, including the gas chambers; exhumation of corpses; the burning of corpses; transports to Sobibor (pp. 3-15). Statement from 18 April 1963; - Information regarding his work in Hartheim; - Detailed information regarding the structure and the murder process in Sobibor (pp.16-22). Statement from 06 May 1965: - Information regarding the murder of mentally ill people in Hartheim (also known as the Gemeinnützige Stiftung fuer Anstaltspflege [Nonprofit Foundation for Institutional Care], Staffel Heger and the Gemeinnützige Krankentransport [Gekrat]) (pp. 24-26). Statement from 29 March 1966: - Detailed information regarding the structure of Sobibor camp; the uprising in Sobibor, fall 1943, and the murder of all the Jews in the camp after the uprising (pp. 28-44). Also in the file: -Sketch of the Sobibor camp drawn by Franz Hoedl (p. 21).