Documents from the process in the Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 11; Documentation of the investigation against Heinrich Barbl, held in Linz Regional Court: Statements by Heinrich Barbl, 1963 - 1966

Documents from the process in the Regional Courts (Landesgericht) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 11; Documentation of the investigation against Heinrich Barbl, held in Linz Regional Court: Statements by Heinrich Barbl, 1963 - 1966 Statements by Heinrich Barbl, born 3 March 1900, a resident of Linz; he was a plumber, a guard at the Hartheim euthanasia site and a guard in Sobibor. Statement from 25 March 1963: - Claim that he only worked as a plumber in Sobibor, and that he was only there for four weeks. Statement from 19 October 1965: - Information regarding Barbl's membership in Nazi organizations; - Reconstruction of Schloss Hartheim and the murder of mentally disabled people; - Construction of the showers in the gas chambers by Barbl. - Information regarding the structure of Sobibor and his work there; claim that the installations for the gas chambers were already completed when he arrived in Sobibor; - Mention of a visit to Belzec with Wirth; denial that he worked at Belzec; claim that he never witnessed how people were murdered in the gas chambers; - Claim that Hoedl activated the motor for the gas chambers; later claim that Hoedl did not activate the motor for the gas chamber; - Participation in the undressing of people several times; - Guarding the transport from the train to the gas chambers. Statement from 16 October 1965: - Claim by Barbl that Hoedl transported Jews by bus to Sobibor; admission that he (Barbl) helped to install the motor for the gas chamber; admission that he witnessed how people were killed in the gas chamber; - Report of a test of the gas chamber involving the murder of Jewish women; further report that Red Cross nurses helped the women to undress; - Transportation of people to Sobibor in passenger coaches and buses. Statement from 28 March 1966: - Statement that he installed showers in the gas chamber of Hartheim; - Description of plates for urns which he produced with the names of people who had been murdered; - Admission that he converted the gas system for the gas chambers in Belzec and description of the gas chamber in Sobibor; further admission that he prepared the gas chamber in Sobibor to make it look like a shower room; in earlier statements he denied that he had seen the inside of the gas chambers. Statement from 29 March 1966: - Protocol from being shown pictures of other guards and workers in Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka; very confused information. Also in the file: -Note stating that Barbl seems to be bovine and unintelligent (19 October 1965). Names mentioned: Hoedl Wirth Erich Bauer Erich Fuchs Eduard [should be Anton] Goetzinger Ferdl Groemer Bolender Kurt Franz Heinrich Gley Jan Glab Schluch Hans Jakl Sepp Falaster (Vallaster) Lorenz Hackenholt Michl Franz Reichleitner Franz Stangl Karl Steubel Thomalla Dr. Renno Merter Gomerski Frenzel Girtzig Nohel Hering Dubois Bredow Kaiser Oberhauser Lambert Ittner Schuett