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; Statement by the Austrian war criminal Josef Groemer, 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; Statement by the Austrian war criminal Josef Groemer, 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 the testimony of Josef Groemer, born 07 September 1903, a resident of Altmuenster, who was a guard in the Sobibor camp near Lublin (pp. 3-4, 11); it also contains a request for the interrogation of Josef Groemer by the Landesgericht fuer Strafsachen Wien (Legal Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna), as well as a list of suspects and information about them (pp. 5-8). Testimony of Josef Groemer from 21 March 1963: - Claim by the defendant that he does not know anything, and that he has never been in Poland, claiming to hace served in the Gestapo of Linz; - Provision of the names of the following witnesses by the defendant: Franz Vieboeck, Ignaz Mayer and Rosa Tidl (pp. 9-10).