Documents from the trials of members of the Hoehere SS und Polizeifuehrer (HSSPF-SS and Police Chief) Lublin conducted in the Landesgericht (Regional Courts) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna: Documentation of the trial, Volume 55; Documentation from the trial of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors, 1961-1962

Documents from the trials of members of the Hoehere SS und Polizeifuehrer (HSSPF-SS and Police Chief) Lublin conducted in the Landesgericht (Regional Courts) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna: Documentation of the trial, Volume 55; Documentation from the trial of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors, 1961-1962 - Criminal proceedings against Dr. Hahn and others (p. 2); - Testimony of the defendant Otto Hantke (pp. 3-62): Informnation regarding the following: The development of Lipowastrasse camp in Lublin (pp. 3, 5, 6, 9); Riedel (pp. 3-6, 17, 23); Mohwinkel (pp. 3-6, 16, 17, 22, 48-50, 52); SS Unter-Obersturmfuehrer Gebauer, SSPF Lublin (p. 4); SS Sturmbannfuehrer Dolp (pp. 5, 18, 19); Stemmler and his activities(probably in Piaski), March/April-July 1942 (pp. 5,7-8); receiving the order from Lerch (SSPF Lublin) to witness the deportation of Jews from a place near Lublin (pp. 8-9); deportation of Jews to death camps (pp. 8-10); the Budzyn camp (pp. 10-11); Stoschik (p. 11); deportation of Jews from Krasnik (p. 11); events in the Lipowastrasse camp (pp. 12-18); SS Oberscharfuehrer Bartetzko, the labor supervisor (pp. 12, 13, 19, 27, 48); execution of a Jew in a Wehrmacht provisions camp near the Lipowastrasse camp, sometime after November 1941 (pp. 15-18); events in Piaski (pp. 18-19); deportation of Jews from Lublin to Majdanek, September-November 1942, including deportation from Lublin to Piaski (p. 19); murder of 13,800 Jews from Opole and the surrounding area, and deportation of 1,200 Jews from Opole to the Poniatowa camp (pp. 19-21); extermination of 6,000 Austrian Jews (p. 22); deportation from the Lublin Ghetto, 16 March-20 April 1942 (pp. 22-25); Globocnik (p. 24); SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Michalsen (pp. 24, 27, 31, 34, 36, 37, 44, 48, 49); the forced resettlement of about 10,000 Jews from Lublin to nearby villages, spring 1942 (p. 25); service in Warsaw (pp. 26-29, 33-36); SS Sturmbannfuehrer Hoefle (pp. 28, 31, 33, 36-39, 42-45); SSPF Lublin (p. 29); the building on Zelaznastrasse 103, the SD Befehlstelle (command post) in Warsaw (pp. 29-31, 36); assignments in the area while based in Warsaw (pp. 31-33); events in Zelaznastrasse 101 and 103, and in the Warsaw Ghetto in general (pp. 36-44); deportations of Jews; other events in the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 45-48); the documentary film "SS Staat" (p. 48); the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943 (pp. 48-50); Schwarzenbacher (p. 48); Slany (p. 48); Claasen (p. 48); events in Krasnik (pp. 50-54); Groeger (p. 51); Lerch (pp. 51, 55); Stoschik (pp. 51, 52, 57); Gross (pp. 52, 55); events in the Budzyn camp (pp. 54-58); shooting of four Jews infected with typhus near a camp between Budzyn and Krasnik (pp. 55-56); - Testimony of the accused Heinrich Klaustermeyer (pp. 63-105): Information regarding the following: SS Unterscharfuehrer Ruehrnschopf, a member of the Judenreferat (Department for Jewish Affairs) (pp. 64, 88); Geipel (p. 64); Hoffmann (p. 64); Bloesche ("Frankenstein") (pp. 64, 65, 69, 83-85, 88, 103, 105); Hans Baecker (pp. 64, 65, 69, 74, 88, 102-105); deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 65-67); Toebbens (pp. 66, 90); the Lubliner Kommando (the Ghetto Kommando in Lublin) (pp. 66, 68, 76, 92); Hantke (p. 66); Michalsen (p. 66); Hoehmann (pp. 66, 82, 83); Witossek (p. 66); Boehm (p. 66); Brandt (pp. 68, 71, 77, 82, 83, 88, 95, 96); the selection of forced laborers for the Roehrich Company (pp. 68-69); Pawiak prison (pp. 70, 87, 94); the gas van in Warsaw (pp. 71-72); Riemann, a member of the Judenreferat (p. 73); Orf (pp. 73-76, 79, 83, 104); Hundt (pp. 73-76, 79, 82); Kommando 1005, based 40 or 50 km. from Warsaw, probably summer 1942 (pp. 75-80, 87, 90-94); Nicolaus (pp. 75-78, 93); Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) Warsaw (p. 77); anti-partisan activity in the area of Minsk Mazowiecki, winter 1942-1943 or winter 1943-1944 (pp. 81-82); Moormann, a manager at Toebbens (p. 89); the Judenrat (p. 88); the gas van at the KdS Warsaw (pp. 95 - 97); Dr. Hahn (p. 96); Walter Stamm (p. 96); Meisinger, commander of the KdS Warsaw until April 1942 (p. 97); Karl Mueller, commander of the KdS Warsaw from 1942 (p. 97); SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Gustav vom Felde (p. 97); Willi Riehmann, a member of the Judenreferat (p. 100); - Documentation regarding criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle, on the charge of complicity in murder (pp. 106, 110, 114); - Testimony of Walter Stamm, Kriminalrat in Department IV, Sipo in the BdS, 1939-31 December 1944 (pp. 107-109): Information regarding SS Gruppenführer Dr. von Sammern-Frankenegg, SSPF of the Warsaw District (pp. 107, 108); SS Gruppenführer Stroop (pp. 107, 108); the Lubliner Kommando (pp. 107, 109); - Testimony of Leo Miller, a Warsaw Ghetto inmate, 1940-May 1943, deported to Majdanek and other camps; liberated, May 1945 (pp. 111-113): deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto, July 1942 (pp. 111-113); Brandt (p. 111); Klaustermeyer (p. 111); Fleschner (?) (p. 111); - Testimony of Josef Wulf (pp. 115-116): Josef Wulf's book "Das Dritte Reich und seine Vollstrecker-Die Liquidation von 500 000 Juden im Ghetto Warschau" (The Third Reich and Its Executioners: The Liquidation of 500,000 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto), Arani-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald, 1961 (p. 115); Dr. Joseph Kermisz' book "Dokumenty i materialy do dziejow okupacji niemieckiej w Polsce - Vol. 2: Akcje i wysiedlienia" (Documents and Materials: The History of the German Occupation of Poland, Warsaw - Volume 2 "Aktions" and Resettlement) 1946 (p. 115); - Statement of the defendant Otto Hantke: Membership in the SS; assignment as an official in Wielun in 1939; service at Selbstschutz (Self-protection- a paramilitary organization created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe) and training in Radom; SSPF office in Lublin in 1940; assignment to Minsk for several months; labor supervisor at a sawmill in Pulawy, 1942-1944; manager at an weapons factory in Stutthof, June/July 1944-February/March 1945; POW of the Allied Armies, 1945-1948 (pp. 117-129); Streibel (p. 118); SS Rottenfuehrer Gross, labor supervisor at a carpentry workshop in the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 119); Lehnert, labor supervisor of a metalworking shop in the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 119, 126); Michael Dorndorf (pp. 119, 125, 126); Fichna (p. 119); Ludwig (p. 119); SS Rottenfuehrer Alfons Meissner (p. 119); Neumann (p. 119); SSPF Lublin (pp. 120, 122, 125); SS Sturmbannfuehrer Hoefle (pp. 120, 122); Claasen (p. 120); events in the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 120-122, 125-128); the building on Zelazna street 103 (p. 120); Brandt (pp. 121, 128); SS Untersturmfuehrer Franz (p. 121); Streibel, commander of Trawniki camp (p. 121); SS Gruppenführer Globocnik (pp. 122, 126); SS Untersturmfuehrer Mohwinkel (pp. 125, 129); SS Sturmbannfuehrer Dolp (p. 125); Riedel (p. 125); SS Gruppenfuehrer Wolff (p. 126); Karl Klein (p. 126); Tuller, the Jewish owner of a wire and nail factory in Lublin (p. 126); Himmler (p. 126); Michalsen (p. 127); Poniatowa (pp. 128-129); Toebbens (pp. 128-129); Pulawy (p. 129); - Testimony of Eugen Lehnert, SS Rottenfuehrer in 1939; service in a snow clearance squad in Lublin, 1939-1940; guard in Lipowa camp until summer 1941; service at a sawmill in Riga until 1942; half a year of training in Breslau; service in the Waffen SS in the USSR (pp. 130-138), the Lipowa camp (pp. 131-132); Gross (pp. 132, 133); Mohwinkel, the commander of the Lipowa camp (p. 132); Bartetzko (p. 132); SS Sturmbannfuehrer Dolp (p. 132); Hantke, responsible for work allocation (p. 132); Klein (p. 132); Riedel, labor supervisor (pp. 132, 134); SS Standartenfuehrer Stemmler (p. 132); events in Riga (pp. 132 - 133); Michalsen (pp. 133, 136, 137); SSPF Lublin (p. 133); Slany (p. 133); Hoefle (pp. 133,136); Seichter (p. 133); deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 134-138); - Testimony of Heinrich Klaustermeyer; service at the KdS in Warsaw in 1944; occasional service at the Judenreferat (pp. 139-141), deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 139-141); Hoefle (p. 140); Max Dahn, the manager of the Bristol Hotel (p. 141); - Testimony of Gisela (Radeloff) Birmes, the secretary in a German company in Warsaw from early 1943; secretary in the Toebbens Company in Warsaw, late February or early March 1943 (pp. 142-143); Hoefle (p. 142); Toebbens (p. 143); - Documentation regarding the transfer of the German police staff to Warsaw, 1941-1944 (pp. 144-146); - Refusal of Jacob Trzina to testify either orally or in writing (p. 147); - Documentation regarding members of the III. battalion of the SS police regiment in Warsaw, January-November 1944 (pp. 148-155); - Testimony of Samuel Kamien (in the preliminary proceedings against members of SSPF Lublin for the murder of several Jews), born in Warsaw, a US citizen and a technical worker in Jersey City: work at a printing press in Warsaw until 1942; rickshaw-driver of SS Rottenfuehrer Doehr; one week in the concentration camp in Lublin, April 1943; two months in Dorohucza near Trawniki; two weeks in Lublin; in Radom, June-July 1943-August 1944; in Veihingen until March 1944; in Dachau for one month, April 1945 (pp. 156-158): SS Rottenfuehrer Doehr (p. 157); Klaustermeyer (p. 157); shootings in Warsaw, August-November 1942 (pp. 157-158); Gerhard Mende (p. 157); murder of a Jew named Rochmann (see item 9231821[?]) (p. 157); regarding a command post on Leszno or Zelezna 103 (p. 158); Hantke (p. 158); - Testimony of Chaim Fuksman, a Jew born in Warsaw, a photographer and an optician; liberated by the Red Army in Germany (pp. 159-162): three photographs regarding the deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 160-161); Gestapo officer Brandt (p. 160); SS officer Konrad (p. 161); - Testimony of Felix Eisenstadt, born in Slonim; military service in the Polish Army in 1939; in Warsaw, December 1939-February 1943; forced labor at the Oxaco AG enterprise in the Warsaw Ghetto, July/August 1942-February 1943; inmate at the Pawiak prison, February 1943-June/July 1943; in the Vittel internment camp in France, August 1943; escape across the Swiss border, April 1944 (pp. 163-165, 168-173, 174-176), regarding Felix Eisenstadt's book "Judenausrottung in Polen-Augenzeugenbericht" (Extermination of the Jews in Poland - An Eyewitness Account), Warsaw, 1944 (pp. 163, 169); - Report regarding the testimony of Felix Eisenstadt (pp. 166-167): Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (pp. 169-172); Schulim Dudelzak (p. 169); Hoefle (pp. 169-172); Michalsen (p. 169); Martin Schlegel, the German manager of the Oxaco AG enterprise (pp. 171, 175); Sigmund Schlegel, Martin Schlegel's son (p. 171); Zelaznastrasse 103 (p. 172); Klaustermeyer (p. 172); Brand (p. 172); Hantke (p. 172); Baecker (p. 172); Michalsen (pp. 172); Kutschera (p. 172); Orff (p. 172); Dr. Kahn/Kan, commander of the retaliatory action in the Warsaw Ghetto, January 1943 (p. 175); - Testimony of Robert Lange (at the preliminary proceedings against Mayor Heinz Reinefarth from Westerland/Sylt, suspected of complicity in murders violating international law): service in the police guard duty battalion of Warsaw in a suburb of Warsaw until December 1944; transfer to a place 60 km west of Warsaw (pp. 177-179), - Testimony of Otto Bundke, commander of the 23rd battalion of SS Police Regiment 23 in Krakow, spring 1943; transfer to Warsaw; transfer to Croatia, late 1943 or early 1944 (pp. 180-184), Stroop (pp. 181, 182); Kutschera, SSPF of Warsaw (p. 183); - Testimony of Fritz Emil Schultz, the manager of an army fur supply factory in the Warsaw Ghetto from early in the war (pp. 185-199): General Boettcher (p. 185); Erich Stankewitz, the managing director of the Bank der Deutschen Arbeit (p. 186); the following officials at the factory: Bischoff; Dr. Hans Ulrich Rathje; Rudolf Neumann; Franz Scherf; Wilhelm Gohr; Kurt Ziemann (p. 186); Klimanek; Lehmann; Griese; Paul Martini (p. 187); a branch of the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto (p. 188); Brandt (p. 188); Klaustermeyer (p. 188); Baecker (p. 188); Hoehmann (p. 188); the Toebbens Company (pp. 188, 192, 196); the Schultz company (pp. 188, 189, 196); Weapons Inspectors Captain (Hauptmann) Hassler (pp. 189, 191, 194) and Admiral Straehler, an inspector in Zoppot (p. 189); deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto, 1942 (pp. 190-192); Oberst Freter, the weapons commander (pp. 190, 191, 194, 196); Himmler (pp. 191, 196); the Lubliner Kommando (pp. 192-193); Michalsen, a member of the Lubliner Kommando (pp. 192, 197, 198); Hoefle, a member of the Lubliner Kommando (pp. 192, 193); Hantke, a member of the Lubliner Kommando (p. 194); Klaustermeyer (pp. 194,195); the hiding of Male Andrzejewski (pp. 194-195); the transfer of a large winter clothing factory from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Trawniki camp (pp. 196-199); Globocnik (p. 197); Stroop (pp. 197, 198); Napieralla (pp. 198, 199); - File note concerning a supplementary reference by the witness Conzen (p. 200) to Klaustermeyer (p. 200).