Documentation from a trial conducted in the Hamburg District Court (Landesgericht Hamburg) against Dr. Ludwig Hahn and others for murder, 1959 - 1960

Documentation from a trial conducted in the Hamburg District Court (Landesgericht Hamburg) against Dr. Ludwig Hahn and others for murder - Yad Vashem file card (p.1); - File card from the Hamburg District Court regarding the trial of Dr. Ludwig Hahn and others for murder (pp. 2-3); - Correspondence among various regional courts regarding clearing the defendants of the charges of violent crimes committed in Warsaw; criminal proceedings against Dr. Hahn and others; lists of suspects, letters, testimonies, pictures and rogatory letters (pp. 4-28, 71-99, 126, 151-161); - Report regarding Treblinka, including descriptions of conditions, organization, functions, area, life of the Jews in the camp, conditions of the inmates, shootings, and forced labor (pp. 37-43); - Excerpts from the diary of Dr.Hilel Zeidman, August 1942-January 1943, regarding his time in the Warsaw Ghetto, including reports concerning the selections, shootings, deportations and resettlement operations in the ghetto (pp. 37-43); - Traffic advice regarding transports to Treblinka, with handwritten instructions (pp. 44-48), 03/08/1942 and 25/08/1942; - Report, including a list of SS members who were killed or wounded in Warsaw; note written by an SS guard from the Warsaw district: "Es gibt keinen juedischen Wohnbezirk mehr" (There is no Jewish residential area any more) (pp. 49-53), 16 May 1943; - Testimony of Albrecht Zahn, born in Stuttgart, Germany, 02 February 1907, a resident of Stuttgart: Arrival in Lublin, September 1939; work as Director of Operations in Lublin until spring 1941; testimony regarding the organization of the deportations and transportation of the Jews in wagons to the camps; knowledge of the gassing in Treblinka; knowledge of Sobibor only as a train station; denial that he had anything to do with the extermination of Jews (pp. 54-57), Ludwigsburg, 06 July 1960; - Letter from Yad Vashem to the Justice Administration in Ludwigsburg (pp. 58-59), 22 June 1960; - Report submitted by SS and police guard Juergen Stroop regarding the Warsaw district; comments concerning the development of Jewish districts and ghettos in the course of time, resettlement, resistance groups, operations and deportations (pp. 60-69); - Letter from Himmler to the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Ost and SS Obergruppenfuehrer Krueger in Cracow regarding the demolition of the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 70); - Overview of results of investigations regarding the Lublin district until the time of the writing of the overview (pp. 98-110); - Excerpts from the book "Azoi iz es gewen" (That Is How It Was) written by Jonas Turkow, Buenos Aires 1948, regarding the Warsaw district, including information concerning members of the SS, shootings, the resettlement operation on 17 April 1942, "Aktion" Reinhard and acts of violence in the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 111-125); - Testimony of Dr.Gerhard Stabenow who had participated in the Volksdeutschen resettlement operation from the occupied areas in the Soviet Union: Responsibility for the economic organization of the SD in Warsaw, April 1940- June 1943; work for the SD in Dortmund; wounded during an air raid; excemption from his Dienstverpflichtung (military service obligation) due to his injury, September 1943; SS contact man in the SS main office in Berlin for SS Obergruppenfuehrer Berger and General Vlasov, November 1944; arrest and detention for a few years; acquittal in 1948; work as a journalist; testimony regarding the Kommandeur (Commander) der Sicherheitspolizei und SSD, the organization and institutions in the Warsaw Ghetto, names of members of the SS and SD in Warsaw; statement that he heard of the gassing of Jews from a Jewish woman in August 1942; testimony regarding the SS cavalry regiment (SS-Kavallerie-Brigade) commanded by Fegelein; comments regarding the liquidation of the hospital in the ghetto, summer 1942; meeting with Odilo Globocnik where he showed him a "model-camp"; Stabenow's help in August 1942 to the Jewish Mrs. Sternfeld who had fled Treblinka; comments regarding the first resettlement operation in the ghetto; claim that he only saw two deportations of Jews to the camps; statement that Hahn knew about the fate of the Jews; testimony regarding the Pawiak prison (pp. 127-137), Bremen, 19 July 1960; -Testimony of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, commander of the Sicherheitspolizei und SD in Warsaw, 01 August 1942-November 1944: Information regarding the institutions under his command; unwillingness to give the names of people who worked in his office; testimony regarding the hierarchy and organization of the ghetto; testimony regarding the Pawiak prison; claim that the ghetto was not under his control and he did not visit it often; claim that he had nothing to do with the resettlement and extermination of Jews; claim that he never saw resettlement operations and that he could not do anything to prevent the deportations; testimony regarding operations by Stroop and the meeting in the Polski-Hotel; denial that he ever worked together with Kaltenbrunner; statement that he had conflicts with Stroop, but that he never heard of executions during the resettlement; denial that the people of his office were under his command during the resettlement operations, summer 1942; denial also, that people were shot or mistreated in the Pawiak prison; denial of any knowledge regarding mass executions in the Gęsiówka ghetto prison, 15 December 1941, denial of any knowledge regarding a shooting, 17-18 April 1942; admission of participation in Standgerichte (state court) trials; comments regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the liquidation of the Pawiak prison, July 1944 (pp. 138-147), Hamburg, 20 July 1960; - Comment of Prosecutor Schuster regarding a Dr. Gallen who testified regarding Dr. Hahn and his activities in Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising (p.148); - List of defendants in Berlin-Tempelhof, 15 July 1960 (p. 150); - Testimony of Benjamin Eichner: Arrival in the Warsaw Ghetto, late 1941; liquidations and resettlement operations, beginning July 1942; violence against Jews; persecution of Jews; beating of the witness until loss of consciousness by Klaustermeyer, February 1943; further information regarding Klaustermeyer, his actions in the ghetto and his physical appearance; participation of the witness in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; claim that he can identify Klaustermeyer or Meyer/Blecher (pp.162-164); - Results of investigations against members of the SS and SD in Warsaw, and some death certificates (pp.165-167); - Facts regarding incidents which occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto, including violence, shootings and persecution of Jews, and the results of investigations of these incidents (pp. 168-175); - Investigations regarding Alfred Cepa, on 10 December 1959 in Ludwigsburg (p.176); - Testimony of Wilhelm Hoegg: Work as a registrar for the Barmer Ersatzkasse, 1943-1947; work as an assessor for the Befreiungsministerium until 1948; work for the Peter Weniger Company in Ludwigsburg, 1949-1953; currently employed by the Bluehender Barock in Ludwigsburg; testimony regarding an incident while watching a film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with his sister-in-law Martha Hoegg and a man called Fred (Alfred Crepaz); description of Crepaz's reaction to the film; later discovery that Crepaz was an member of the SS and that he participated in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (pp.177-178), Ludwigsburg, 30 November 1959; - Testimony of Alfred Cepa in Ludwigsburg, 22 April 1960: Commencement of military service, 1939; joining the SS in Warsaw, 1943; description of his SS unit; at the Dacinzka school in Warsaw; transfer to Uhlands Kaserna where he undergoes further military training; transfer to Danzig-Matzkau for probation work, summer 1944; transfer to Chlum; arrest by the SS in Maehrisch, and return to his unit; arrival in Linz after his discharge; move to Traunstein; in Traunstein until 1950; testimony regarding his time in the Warsaw Ghetto and the deportation of Jews; claim that he did not witness the liquidation of the ghetto; claim that he never heard anything about an uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto or violence against Jews during that time; testimony regarding the Ghettowache (Ghetto police); claim that he cannot name any of his comrades from Warsaw; denial of participation in the suppression of the ghetto uprising; denial of knowledge of anyone being shot in the Warsaw Ghetto; statement that he never witnessed such incidents or heard about them; claim that he was not against Jews, and that he did not become a member of the SS voluntarily; denial that he ever saw a movie or a television show about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, or commented on it; attachment containing the protocol of the testimony of Alfred Cepa (pp.179-188); - Testimony of Wilhelm Hoegg: Confirmation that he watched a film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with Alfred Cepa and that Cepa said that he had participated in the fight against the resistance fighters of the ghetto uprising, and that he had been a member of the Warsaw SS (pp.189-190); - Letter to the Hamburg police office, 02 August 1960; various files and lists of Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds - SIPO and SD Headquarters) Warsaw personnel (pp. 191-194); - List of names of members of the former Kds department in Warsaw who were proposed for war decorations by the Warsaw Kds (pp.195-203); - Preliminary proceedings regarding various personnel from the Kds and SS in Warsaw, held in Saarbruecken, 29 July 1960 (pp. 204-217).