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; protocol from the trial of Alois Rzepa

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; protocol from the trial of Alois Rzepa 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 testimonies by Alois Rzepa, born 17 February 1908, a resident of Vienna, who worked in the office of the HSSP Lublin as an accountant, and registered the valuables of the Jews murdered in the camps around Lublin. Statement from 10 April 1962: - Information regarding his army and work history; work in the administration of the HSSP Lublin and later in Trawniki; description of his work and mention of the fact that there were many gold teeth, so they knew that the valuables came from murdered Jews; mention that HSSP Lublin had Jewish laborers who were sent to Majdanek in the fall of 1943 (pp. 3-13). Statement from 27 April 1965: - Description of the registration of valuables and the transport; information regarding approximately 20 Jewish laborers who came from the Majdanek camp and were later killed there; - Claim that he is not guilty (pp. 14-19). Statement from 21 February 1968: - Further description of his work and mention of the fact that Odilo Globocnik personally brought the confiscated valuables and gold bars to Berlin; more details concerning the work of the Jewish laborers; report that Franz Stangl once brought valuables and that he signed a receipt issued in Sobibor (pp. 20-23).