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 Johann Rohrboeck

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 Johann Rohrboeck 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 Johann Rohrboeck, born 23 August 1911, a resident of Vienna: Statement from 08 September 1965: - Military service as a member of an SS guard unit. - Description of his SS training and information regarding the SSP guarding arrangements in Lublin. - Service in the Zentralbauleitung (Central Construction) Berlin, from 1943; work on a farm near Lublin as the head of construction; use of Jewish and Polish civilians as laborers; sometimes Jewish laborers did not come to work and disappeared; aware of the smoke from the camp crematoria, but no knowledge of the murder of Jews there; - Relief that he did not have to participate in the evacuation of the ghetto; constant efforts not to be involved in actions against civilians; - Admission that he was a guard at the Lipowa camp; report that Karl Heinrich Mohwinkel was promoted by Himmler on a visit to the camp; statement that Mohwinkel and Otto Hantke were very brutal; - Report of the shooting of Jews in the Lipowa camp, fall 1943, hearing the shots and very loud music (pp. 3-12). Statement from 04 November 1965: - Information regarding the guards in the Lipowa camp; the treatment of the Jewish laborers and the distribution of work. - Reports regarding the escape of 15 inmates from the Lipowa camp (pp. 14-17).