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 Max Meierhofer, active in Lublin during the war, 1963

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 Max Meierhofer, active in Lublin during the war, 1963 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 Max Meierhofer, born 10 October 1909, a resident of Salzburg, who was a member of the 1st SS Flakregiment in Lublin. Statement from 22 March 1963: - Claim by the defendant that he worked in the civil administration in Lublin, and that he did not know anything about the murder of Jewish or Polish civilians. Statement from 12 April 1963: - Claim by the defendant that he does not remember that he took part in selections as reported by another witness; - Report that he had an accident in 1943, and was hospitalized until 1947; - Assertion that there must be another person named Max Meierhofer. - Note from 12 April 1963 regarding the injuries Meierhofer sustained in the accident.