Statements by the accused Austrian war criminal Benedikt Farkas, 1962 - 1965

Statements by the accused war criminal Benedikt Farkas, 1962 - 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 Benedikt Farkas, born 21 September 1909, a resident of Linz, who worked as a driver for Odilo Globicnik in Lublin and Trieste. Statement from 12 July 1962: - Information regarding his work history; mention of the fact that he worked for a company owed by a Jew named Helsig in Vienna; report that he drove Globocnik to Berlin and Warsaw several times (pp. 6-9). Statement from 25 March 1964: - Report that he drove Hermann Hoefle, Odilo Globocnik and Kurt Daluege to Warsaw, and that they also made tours through the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 11-13). Statement from 04 May 1965: - Discussion of Hoefle's responsibilities, including organizing the training of Ukrainian guards in Trawniki; admission that Hoefle was also responsible for the deportation of Jews; - Mention of storage for suitcases near the Lipowa camp; - Admission that that he served as a guard in the Lipowa camp for a short time; report that Jews were beaten with whips; - Report that Himmler, Goebbels and Daluege visited the Warsaw Ghetto; - Claim that he did not participate in the evacuation of the Ghetto, but admission that he was supposed to receive a photo album from Hoefle, with photographs taken during the evacuation (pp. 15-27). Correspondence among various regional courts regarding the trial against Benedikt Farkas (pp. 3-5, 10, 14).