Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Documentation of the trial, volume 21; protocol of the investigation of Franz Krakhofer, 1965

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Documentation of the trial, volume 21; protocol of the investigation of Franz Krakhofer, 1965 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 a statement by Franz Krakhofer, born 16 May 1912, a resident of Bruck-Neudorf, who was a member of the Waffen SS (Div. Der Fuehrer, Das Reich). He worked for the Umsiedlungsstelle (resettlement site), then as a guard in different camps, and later as a farmer. Statement from 12 July 1965: - Information regarding his work history and his work; statement that there were Jews who were supposed to have been transferred to the Soviets, but the Soviets refused to accept them, so the Jews were sent to the Lipowa camp near Lublin; - Report that a Jew in the Lipowa camp told him that Riedel and others beat the Jewish inmates; - Information regarding a garage in Lubartowska street in Lublin; - Report that after his unit was reassigned, a Lithuanian unit and a Dirlewanger unit guarded in these camps; his unit later became part of the KGL Lublin; - Report that they started to construct barracks for a camp; claim that he later worked in farm called Majdanek; - Little information regarding the shooting of Jews near Majdanek after the evacuation of the Lublin Ghetto, spring or autumn 1943; report that a unknown SS unit came by bus and did the shooting; - Further information that he saw approximately 100 dead bodies on a trailer, summer 1943; - Report that a Jew was shot by guards, after one of the guards forced the Jew to run in the direction of the guards; - Report that a criminal named Ossi (with a green triangle on his shirt [thus a professional criminal]) killed a Jewish worker by beating him with a spade. Names mentioned: Kreuzer Heinrich v. Benthen Dr. Klaus Kluss Tetzl Knochenmus Otto Welnatschitz Hans Rohrbaeck Josef Gramanitsch Buchholz Vetter Schuster Winkler Lipinsky Rolf Walter Wanka-Wanstroem Riedel Mohwinkel Klein Langleist Alfred Kramer Willy Gerstenmeier Giesselmann Mezer Koch Koegel Weiss Florstaett Liebehenschel Worster Paul Zimmer Friedrich Fink Jakob Bleier Reinhold Muerau Hoefele Farkas Hans Rohrbaeck Knochenmuss Babitzka Wrobel Hans Gegenhuber Voelker