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 Rudolf Schleissner

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 Rudolf Schleissner 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 of Rudolf Schleissner, born 14 March 1906, a resident of Viktring: - Service in SS Infanterieregiment 12, 1939- autumn 1940; - Opens Deutsches Haus, a soldiers' home/kitchen in Lublin, following a suggestion by Odilo Globocnik, autumn 1940; he had been a waiter in Café Lerch in Klagenfurt before the war, and he knew most of his guests already from the café; - Denial that he ever saw atrocities committeed against Jews or Poles, and claim that he does not know anything about such matters (statement from 09 April 1962) (pp. 5-7); Also in the file: - Correspondence from Landesgericht Wien to Landesgericht Klagenfurt (27 March 1962) (pp. 3-4).