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 Karl Tiefenthal

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 Karl Tiefenthal 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 testimonies by Karl Tiefenthal, born 01 January 1902, a resident of Klagenfurt; commander of a unit of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz (self-defense). Statement from 29 April 1965: - Denial that he or his unit were involved in any atrocities involving Jewish or Polish civilians; - Defendant was in Lublin, 1940; in Katowice 1940-1941; - Arrest by the Gestapo in 1942; transfer to a battalion in Dachau as a punishment, 1943-to the end of the war; - Mention that he heard that Hermann Dolp told Paulus that he (Dolp) had shot a Jew in the Lipowa camp; - Denial that he was responsible for the transport of 30,000 Jews from Krakow to labor camps in Lublin in 1940, even though there is a letter from Globocnik giving evidence to that effect; - Further denial that he or his unit were involved in an act of retaliation in a Polish village, following the killing of a member of his unit by the Poles (pp. 3-7).