Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 66: Trial against Hermann Hoefle: Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 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 66; Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 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 documentation and statements of witnesses. A detailed and complete list of documents can be found in the Aktenverzeichnis (docket), (TR.21/1). Statements by former members of the HSSP Lublin and other Nazi organizations: - Statement by Adolf Eichmann given 02 November 1961: Non-identification of photographs showing Hoefle; (pp. 375-384). - Statement by Georg Johannes Wilhelm Michalsen given 14 February 1961: Information regarding "Aktion Reinhard", deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto, Piaski, and Miendzyrzec; shooting in Riga; Names mentioned: Lerch, Schleissner, Helletsberger, Hoefle, Nemec, Mohrenschildt, Wirth, Hanelt, Eigner, Globocnik, Schwarzenbacher, Karl Streibel, Hering, Stangl, Oberhauser, Schwarz, All, Rolixmann, Franz, Handtke, Slany, Gross, Lehnert, Zucht, Beyer, Sechta, Worthoff, Brand, Glaasen (Claasen), Grejer, Dr. Sickel, Brand (Jewish Dentist), Konrad, Goeth, Sturm, Riedel, Mohwinkel, Bartetzko, Schubet, Wendland, Bohlmann, Johannes Mueller, Reichenwallner, Jeckeln, Schaefer, Kleist and Ludwig (pp. 357-366). - Statement by Wilhelm Tewes, a police officer in Warsaw, given 07 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything about the evacuation; Names mentioned: Stroop (pp. 176-194) - Statement by Erich Kossan given 06 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything; Names mentioned: Freter and Friedrich Hassler (pp. 195-208). - Statement by Hermann Kleist given 07 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything (pp. 209-221). - Statement by Georg Folta given 01 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything about Hoefle or the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto; mention of fliers distributed by partisans spreading information regarding the extermination camps; Names mentioned: Dr. Hahn, Globocnik and Spilker (pp. 222-235). Statement by Willy Koenig given 06 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything about Hoefle (pp. 236-237). Statement by Hermann Rupprecht given 04 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything about Hoefle; admission that he knew about atrocities and extermination camps (pp. 240-251). Statement by Kurt Karl Scherbel given 04 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything about Hoefle; Names mentioned: Meisinger and Hahn (pp. 252-263); - Statement by Walter Knoll given 30 November 1961 Reports of the shooting of Cohn and Heller; admission that they worked as informers for him; Names mentioned: Brandt (pp. 94-104). Statement by Gustav Steinmetz, adjutant to Dr. Hahn, given 05 December 1961: Claim that he does not know anything; Names mentioned: Meisinger, Kah and Waldemar Stark; Places mentioned: Wolomin (pp. 105-115). - Statement by Josef Oberhauser, an instructor for Ukrainians in Lublin, given 28 November 1961: Very little information regarding Hoefle (pp. 7-17). Statements by Jewish survivors: - Statement by Jakob Sendrowicz given 05 December 1961: Report of the shooting of Jewish workers at a sabots factory in the Warsaw Ghetto in autumn 1942. Names mentioned: Don (pp. 79-91). - Statement by Sam Henry Hoffenberg given 07 August 1961: Detailed information regarding his personal history and the history of his family; the murder of Jewish Intelligentsia, January 1940; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, workshops, deportations in 1942, the Toebbens factory, the Poniatowa camp and the murder of 14,000 workers there; Names mentioned: Jacob Hoffenberg, Adel (Weisbrod) Hoffenberg, Benjamin Hoffenberg, Alexander Hoffenberg, Menachem Hoffenberg, Rosa Cemach, Auerswald, Klaustermeyer, Eynert, Handke, Schulten, Buermes, Bartetschko, Sammern, Sropp (Stroop), Brandt, Orf, Blecher, Globocnik, Hoefle, Wipper, Hering, Michaelsen, Konrad, Schwarzenbacher, Wallerang, Mende, Gley, Nimitz, Schubert, Backhaus, Gross, Schneider, Schmidt and Domanski (pp. 351-356). - Statement by Artur Mendrzycki, born 30 September 1914, from 08 December 1961: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto until late March 1943; deportation of Jews to extermination camps; Names mentioned: Odilo Globocnik, Hermann Hoefle (pp. 148-160). - Statement by Mietek Rosenbaum given 06 December 1961: Eyewitness account of Hoefle personally shooting people in the Warsaw Ghetto and in Majdanek; information regarding the Umschlagplatz (pp. 161-175); - Statement by Robert Levi given 05 December 1961: Deportation from Warsaw to Treblinka, 09 April 1942 with 200 other inmates; labor building the extermination camp; escape and return to Warsaw; informing the Judenrat, which did not believe him; information regarding his history; Names mentioned: Max Fladow; Places mentioned: Detmold, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Gewischewitz, Gross Rosen, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt (pp. 116-134). Selection of administrational correspondence and notes: - Requests to interview : Josef Wulf, Berlin (pp. 34-42); Karl Heinz Hirsch, Vienna (pp. 34-61); Michal Mazor, Paris (pp. 63-77); Gottlieb Hoehmann, Remscheid (pp. 289-230); Walter Stamm, Hamburg (pp. 320-329); Ludwig Hirschfeld, Ber Marek and Marek Edelman, Warsaw (pp. 330-338); Robert Lorent, Cologne (pp. 341-349), - Request regarding Rachel Auerbach, Hersz Wasser, Diana Blumenfeld, Franz Blaettler, Isaak Cukierman, H. Novogrodzki, Leon Feiner and Simcha Rathauser (pp. 369-370); - Information regarding an indictment in Munich against Josef Kaspar Oberhauser, who served under Christian Wirth; Names mentioned: Kurt Franz, Roman Robak ( former Reber) Girtzig Hans, Heinz Hermann Albrecht, Arthur Dachsel, Heinz Willy Schmidt, Josef Barbel, Groth, Kamm, Friedrich Schneider, Spiess, Reinhold Felix, Karl Schluch, Ernst Zierke, Heinrich Gley, Heinrich Unverhau, Franz Barbetzko, Max Baumann, Iwan Bender, Willy Grossmann, Franz Hoedl, Michael Huber, Kunz, Lusse, Maetzig, Gustav Muenzberger, Peter Oster, Scharf, Schiffner Karl, Schitz Karl, Wilhelm Schwarzkopf, Seidel Kurt, Trautwein, Vey, Dubois Werner, Paul Rost, Fritz Tauscher, Robert Juehrs, Allers Dietrich, Gomerski Hubert, Lorent Robert, Georg Michalsen, Oels Arnold and Kurt Bolender; Places mentioned: Grafeneck, Brandenburg, Baerenburg, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka; (pp. 135-142). Copies of Nazi documents: - Note from 15 July 1942 saying that Hoefle is responsible for a card index of Jewish property (p. 23). - List of people deported to Opole who returned to Vienna: Rosa Appel, Walter Appel, Siegmund Deutsch, Anika Engel, Rudolf Engel, Edith Frischmann, Fritz Kueri, Selma Ludwan, Robert Paul De Majo, Alecanda Schaerf, Hersch Wenkart, Klara Wenkart, Ruth Stein (Wenkart) Marcovici and Emilie Wolf (p. 19).