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 SS-Oberscharführer Franz Hoskowetz, active in the office of Hermann Hoefle and Odilo Globocnik in Lublin in 1940 - 1942, from the years 1964 - 1965

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 SS-Oberscharführer Franz Hoskowetz, active in the office of Hermann Hoefle and Odilo Globocnik in Lublin in 1940 - 1942, from the years 1964 - 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 statements by Franz Hoskowetz, born 01 October 1910, a resident of Linz, who was a member of the Waffen SS and worked in the office of Hermann Hoefle and Odilo Globocnik in Lublin, April 1940-December 1942, and later in Zamosc. Statement from 10 February 1964: - Information regarding his work and army service; claim that he was responsible for translations, organizing of materials and the legal confiscation of buildings; - Testimony that he remembers the following persons from the SSPF Lublin: Mayerhofer, Mohrenschildt, Eigner, Farkas, Scheper, Schleissner, Wukowits, Stanglica, Helletsberger and Wanka; - Admission that he witnessed the evacuation of the Lublin Ghetto, but assertion that he does not know anything about cruelties against Jews; brief report regarding the evacuation of the ghetto; the Trawnikianer unit served as guards for the evacuation. Statement from 07 May 1965: - Admission that he might have written letters for Hermann Hoefle regarding the Reinhard "Aktion"; further questioning concerning Hoefle and his close coworkers, especially those involved in the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto, like Lerch and Maubach. Statement from 21 October 1965: - Reiteration of the claim that he was concerned with confiscation of buildings and not with "Aktions" against Jews; further information concerning his work in Hoefle's office and an explanation of why he signed letters for Globocnik.