Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 63: Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the liquidation of the ghettos in Warsaw and Lublin, 1961

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Hoehere SS- und Polizeifuehrer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin; Volume 63; Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the liquidation of the ghettos in Warsaw and Lublin, 1961 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 the Main Volume; it contains administrational correspondence and documents, copies of Nazi documents from the Nuremberg Trials and statements from witnesses. A detailed and complete list of the documents can be found in Aktenverzeichnis (TR.21/1). Statements of former members of the HSSPF Lublin: - Statements by Hermann Josef Worthoff, born: 23 March 1910 (pp. 5-56): 21 September 1961: Information regarding Hoefle's participation in the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the murder of Jews from the Lublin (Majdan Tatarski) Ghetto in the Krepiczc forest; Names mentioned: Hoefle, Globocnik, Johannes Mueller, Michalsen, Claasen, Dr. Sturm and Lerch; Places mentioned: Majdanek, Kalinowszyna and Majdan Tartarski; 09 November 1960: Information regarding his personal history; the evacuation of the Lublin Ghetto; the shooting of Jews in a forest nearby Majdanek; the shooting of patients in a Lublin hospital; the shooting of inmates; Names mentioned: Dr. Iselhorst, Weimann, Huppenkothen, Hess, Levermann, Hoffmann, Kalich, Konopka, Krichel, Walter, Steffen, Hermann Josef Schmitz, Johannes Mueller, Liska, Puetz and Rohlfing; Places mentioned: Klagenfurt, Krain, Pinsk, Brest Litowsk and Majdan Tatarski; 10 November 1960: Information regarding the evacuation of the Lublin Ghetto; the Warsaw Ghetto; the murder of Jews from a hospital, a nursing home and an orphanage in Lublin, 10 April 1942; admission that he was responsible for the shooting of 4,000 Jews in a forest nearby Krepiczc; Names mentioned: Knitzky, Lehk, Marek Alten, Kalich, Grajer, Levermann, Goldfarb, Dr. Sturm, Sturm, Turkieltaub, Huebner, Kilchenstein, Hoffmann, Honigmann, Klawier, Alexander Bronstein, Michalsen, Claasen, Hahn, Lomann, Schubert, Johannes Mueller, Hoefle and Globocnik; Places mentioned: Majdan Tatarski, Majdanek, Trawniki, Treblinka and Belzec; 30 November 1960: Information regarding a meeting held either 20 or 21 June 1942, and the organization of the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto; Names mentioned: Johannes Mueller, Hoefle, Globocnik, Michalsen, Lerch, Hahn, Hohmann, Lohmann, Stamm, Scheerer, Werner, Brandt, Mende, Knoll, Wittosek, Klostermeier and Orf; 06 March 1961: Information regarding the organization of the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, meetings and the Umschlagplatz; Names mentioned: Hoefle, Globocnik, Michalsen, Lerch, Claasen, Hahn, Sammern-Frankenegg, Lohmann and Hoehmann; Places mentioned: Belzec, Majden Tatarski and Pinsk. - Statement by Hans Gustav Maubach, born 19 December 1904, given 30 August 1961 (pp. 61-73): Information regarding the organization of the HSSPF Lublin and his personal history; Names mentioned: Friedrich Thinek, Otto Abetz, Rainer, Globocnik, Hoefle, Lerch, Michalsen, Schmidt, Himmler, Gebhard, Peiper, Wolf, Korsemann, Kientrupp, Fegelein, Magill, Conti, Hans Merk, Nemetz, Max Cziechotzky, von Rank, Dolp, Mohrenschildt, Paul Gassner, Alvensleben, Dirlewanger, Mohwinkel, Dr. Sickel, Huppenkothen, Wirth, Heydrich, Johannes Mueller, Krueger, Prutzmann, Jaeckeln, Katzmann, Natter, Boehringer, Offermann, Streibel, Koch, Dirlewanger and Fritz; Places mentioned: Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, Pinsk, Brest Litowsk and Trawniki; - Statement by Georg Michalsen, born 13 September 1906, given 14 September 1961 (pp. 75-80). Information regarding the organization of the HSSPF Lublin; Names mentioned: Globocnik, Lerch, Hoefle, Nemec, Wirth, Krueger and Oberhauser; Places mentioned: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Przezysl;. - Statement by Walter Werner, born 12 August 1911 (pp. 81-85); 29 September 1961: Information regarding Dr. Stabenow, Kahn, and Dr. Hahn. - Statement by Rudolf Bauch, born 22 February 1888, given 02 October 1961 (pp. 86-122): Reference to his statement from 17 May 1961; confirmation that the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto was violent from the very beginning (There is also a copy of the statement, identical to the copy with a description which can be found in TR21/61). - Statement by Guenther Sachse, born 24 July 1906, given 10 October 1961 (pp. 123-127): Little information regarding the HSSPF Lublin; Names mentioned: Johannes Mueller, Globocnik, Hoefle and Sporrenberg. - Statement by Dr. Gerhard Stabenow, given 01 November 1961 (pp. 188-207): Information regarding the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, especially the deportation of the families of Jewish policemen; the shooting of Jews during a party and the murder of people from Stawki hospital. Names mentioned: Globocnik, Hoefle, Hahn, Michalsen, Stroop, Gunther Schmidt, Brandt, Knoll, Wolf, Szymanowicz, Cohn, Heller, Toebbens, Fegelein, Conrad and Sternfeld; Places mentioned: Trawniki, Treblinka and Poniatowa. - Statement by Hans Gustav Maubach, given 07 November 1961 (pp. 350-362): Little information regarding his personal history and Hoefle; Names mentioned: Nemecz and Hupenkothen. Statements by witnesses: - Statement by Edward Reicher, given 25 October 1961: Detailed information regarding events, October 1940-25 January 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto; eye witness reports of deportations, murders and atrocities; information concerning Hoefle; reference to a statement by Edward Reicher from 1948; three sketches of his shelter and of Zelaznastrasse are added; Names mentioned: Johanna Reicher, Elisabeth Sofia Reicher, Czerniakow, Markus Lichtenbaum, Edward Lichtenbaum, Miecislaw Lichtenbaum, Szerynski, Lejkin, Stroop, Brand or Brandt, Hantke, Slany or Slani, Hoehenwarter, Klaustermeyer, Waldemar, Stolczmann, Wielkowski, Kohn, Heller, Marta Rala Frydman, Joana, Michalsen, Geibel, Aniela Woroniecka and Jadwiga Turek; Places mentioned: Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Zelaznastrasse 99, Milastrasse and Otwock; (pp. 130-159). Selection of administrational correspondence and notes: - Information regarding trials in Germany against: Hermann Worthoff, Harry Sturm, Johannes Mueller, Ewald Biegelmeyer, Gotthardt Schubert, Bruno Meiert and Walter Hess. (pp. 57-60); - Request concerning Kallmeyer (9 October 1961) (p. 74). Requests to interview: Hans Gustav Maubach, Augsburg (pp. 167-174); Max Runhof, Wiesbanden, (pp. 175-182); Moses Szmulewicz, Antwerp (pp. 208-216); Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, Vienna (pp. 217-224); Marta Hala Frydmann, Berta Dukarewicz, Bronislaw Marszok and Jakob Rudnianski, Paris (pp. 225-233); Henry Hoffenberg, Rollin en Saint Maur (pp. 234-241); Rachmil Gartenkraut, Brazil (pp. 243-251); Samuel Blade, Stockholm (pp. 255-262); Kurt Hubert Franz, Willi Menz August Miete, Karl Prefi, Duesseldorf (pp. 264-271); Marcel Ranicki-Reich, Hamburg (pp. 273-280); N. Spiro, Fuerth (pp. 281-288); Richard Mittelberg, Henryk Kaminsky and D. Landau, Melbourne (pp. 290-298); Benjamin Goldmann, Frankfurt (pp. 299-306); Heinrich Birmes, Hamburg (pp. 307-314); Will Paul Bruno Koenig, Bad Schwalbach (pp. 315-322); Benjamin Gruszka, Luebeck (pp. 323-330); Israel Spiegelstein, Munich (pp. 331-338); Abram Sandomir, Duesseldorf (pp. 339-346); Abraham Figowy, Hamburg (pp. 363-370); Walter Schober, Paffenhofen-Ilm (pp. 371-378); Walter Otto Willi Stamm, Berlin (pp. 379-386).