Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Klagenfurt Regional Court, Volume 16; Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1962

Documentation from the trial of Hermann Hoefle held in the Salzburg Regional Court; Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the activity of the SSPF Lublin and "Aktion Reinhard", 1962 Letters (1962) of the investigating judge from the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany, respectively to the responsible courts in New York and Montreal, requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's vindication, as well as requests for hearings of the witnesses Heinrich Gley, Hirtreiter, Hans Girtzig, Hubert Gomerski, Chawa Kempinski, Kalman Jankowsky, Dr. Friedrich Gollat and Robert Lorent, respectively Celnik and Simon Goldberg; furthermore the letters to the courts in New York and Montreal contain a list with 75 questions for the witnesses, and translations of the rogatory letter and the questionnaire into English; Formal accompanying letters of various German magistrate courts who examined the witnesses and sent their testimonies to the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court); Note (28/06/1960) of Gerichtsassessor (assessor at the court) Zeug in Ludwigsburg regarding the criminal proceedings against the KdS and the SD (security services) in Bialystok, Dr.Herbert Zimmermann; clearing of the central ghetto in Bialystok through units of the SS- and police leader of Lublin; beginning of the operations on 16/08/1943, ending in 09/1943 with the complete liquidation of the ghetto (p.35); Testimony (12/07/1960) of Heinrich Otto, born 1890, member of the NSDAP and the SS, conscripted to the SS-Totenkopfstandarte (militarized camp guards of the SS Death's Head Division) in Buchenwald in 1939; selected by SS-Brigadegeneral (brigadier general) Breithaupt and transferred to Cracow and Warsaw; participation in three deportations; subject to SS- and police leader Globocnik; ordered by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Lerch, Otto led a special command unit, was transferred to Tomaszow, Lublin (led by Sporrenberg) and Cracow, passed through various German towns and detention camps until released in 11/1945 (pp.36-38); Otto remembers the following SS men of the office of the SS- and police leader in Lublin: - Sturmbannfuehrer (majors) Hoefle and Lerch, - Sturmfuehrer (captain) Ulbrich, - Wippern, the leader of the general premises administration, - Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Hanelt, - Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Claasen, - Rechnungsfuehrer (accountant) Wanka, as well as - the employees Hans Boettcher, Alfred Kummer, Willi Pflaume, Helmut von Scheidt and Franz Schumacher; - the names of Michalsen, Josef Slany and SS-Oberscharfuehrer (technical sergeant) Zimmermann (pp.38-39); Asked for special operations, for deportations and for his involvement into actions against Jews, he seems to be ignorant; he has forgotten why he was decorated in Lublin (pp.39-41); the special command units were subordinated to Gouverneur Frank in Krakau; officers of the units were Hauptmann (captain) Foerster and Leutnant (lieutenant) Tienemann; other command leaders were Heinz Hoppe, Dirrlewanger and Josef Feldberg; Otto claims that he knows nothing about mass executions and the gassing of Jews (pp.41-42); Note of the interrogator regarding the poor memory of the witness due to calcification (p.42); Testimony (08/07/1960) of Artur Jaekel, born 1919, incorporated into the Selbstschutz (self protection) in 1939, integrated into the SS and member of a SS Death's Head Division led by Eicke; transferred to various countries, finally to Lublin in summer 1942; participation in two operations against partisans; after an illness again in Lublin, 11/1943 - 05/1944; ordered to Oranienburg; he avoided his transfer to the warring troops by a sick certificate (pp.43-44); Asked for members of "Aktion Reinhard" he names: - SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (lieutenant colonel) Wippern who commanded the "Aktion", - Rzepa who was responsible for the storage of values, - SS-Unterscharfuehrer (sergeant) Pflanzer who melted confiscated gold into bars, - SS-Unterscharfuehrer Sottmann who sorted the values, - SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Kramme or Kramer who led department 4 a [Aktion Reinhard], and perhaps - SS-Sturmfuehrer (captain) Brosig; he\\ Jaekel knows only the value registration, i.e. the last phase of "Aktion Reinhard", consisting of ca.10 persons; according to Odilo Globocnik, the SS- and police leader of Lublin, 92 persons were involved in the "Aktion" (pp.45-46); - Asked for the extermination of Jews, report that SS-Unterscharfuehrer (sergeant) Wienholz had to work in a special command, to burn corpses, and returned with serious mental problems; Jaekel saw the pools of blood in the ghetto of Lublin after its clearing, heard of the use of gas; thought that Majdanek, Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor were concentration camps, not extermination camps; he knew Kurt Schumacher, but heard nothing from him about the shooting of Jews having been used in "Aktion Reinhard" (pp.46-48); - Regarding the security police, he knew only SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (lieutenant colonel) Mueller; report on his fairness, when Wippern had changed Jaekel's translation of interrogation records of innocently arrested Poles; asked for potential witnesses of "Aktion Reinhard", he names comrades from his former SS-office: Leistikow, Reckleben, Schwarzkopf, Huebner, Koppolt, Siemandel, Labhard, Fritz Schmidt, Nietzsch and Huber (pp.48-50); Testimony (06/07/1960) of Kurt Schumacher, born 1922, enlisted in a SS Death's Head Division in 1939, trained in Dachau and Buchenwald but not employed in the camps, transferred to several countries and finally to Lublin, employed in lodging management until 1942; the general premises administration in Lublin was led by SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Wippern; his adjutant was SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Karl Huber, later SS-Obersturmfuehrer Brosig and Raich; as serge acted SS-Unterscharfuehrer (sergeants) Ebeling, Willi Walter and Heinz Witte; Schumacher was personnel administrator until the beginning of 1944, when he joined the SS division Nordland in the Netherlands and was wounded; he became prisoner of war, was released in 1946 (pp.51-52); - Asked for the "Aktion Reinhard", Schumacher reports that it was also named "4 a" and led by Globocnik, that according to rumors Jews had to count money, repair watches and jewelry; he observed how these witnesses of the "Aktion" were eliminated, but he knew only some of the SS men involved: - Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Wippern, - Oberscharfuehrer (technical sergeant) Rzepa, - Unterscharfuehrer (sergeants) Sottmann and Pflanzer; He remembers the following members of the general premises administration: - Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Schmidt, - Untersturmfuehrer (second lieutenants) Nitsch and Bartel, - Oberscharfuehrer (technical sergeants) Friedrich Schmidt and Decker; - He heard of the clearing of the ghetto and shootings, knew from Rezepa and Sottmann who administered values, that this was a part of "Aktion Reinhard"; he was in touch with former comrades: Arthur Jaeckel, Karl Labhard, Heid Buss and Leo Bialinski; he knew of Wippern's attempt to falsify testimonies of Poles, that Jews were killed in Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor; that SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Wirth put a teacher into prison who had an affair with a Jewess and was denounced by Kircher or Kirchner; that the confiscated valuables were transported to Berlin (pp.53-57); - Schumacher was decorated for securing the withdrawal of the wounded SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Wippern and his men after an operation against partisans; he was in Zamosz for a visit of his comrade Stachnik; remembers Rzepa, Schnur, Oberhauser and SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Michalsen; did not participate in executions of Jews or Poles; together with SS-Oberstrumfuehrer Brosig he brought 20 or 30 Jews to the camp, the guard garrison went past the camp with them; later he heard shooting (pp.57-59); Testimony (15/06/1960) of Dr.Maximilian Horn, born 1904, member of the NSDAP and the SS since 1933, in Danmark and Belgium 1939-1942; Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) and Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) of the Waffen-SS 1942-1944 (pp.60-62); - Appointed by SS-Obergruppenfuehrer (lieutenant general) Pohl in 03/1943, Horn became managing director of the OSTI, i.e. industry being set up in Eastern Europe; tensions with Globocnik, the actual director; the OSTI was a public enterprise which should centralize existing industries, assume possession of mostly Jewish property, confiscated by SS- and police leaders, and aim at utilizing it; the OSTI liquidated soon after its establishment (pp.62-63); - Detailed report on the beginning of "Aktion Reinhard", i.e. incidents on 05/11/1943 when 800 to 1000 Jews from the OSTI were deported while he was in preventive custody; probably the action was led by SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) Sperenberg [Sporrenberg]; Horn knows that thousands of Jews from Lublin and Warsaw were liquidated, but is no eyewitness (pp.63-65); - Asked for the SS- and police units in the district of Lublin, he remembers only Mueller from the office of the SD (security service); reading a list of names, he comments on: - Kurt Claasen, - SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Hanelt, - SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Hoefle, Sturmbannfuehrer Lerch who was a friend of Globocnik, - SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Wippern, - SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Wirth commanding an airport-warehouse and raising difficulties when his manager protected Jews; He further remembers - SS-Oberscharfuehrer (technical sergeant) Dr. Wilhelm, - the ethnic German Schneemann and - Miss Krus, a secretary for some months; He knew of the extermination camps Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Majdanek, but was not permitted to visit them (pp.65-69); Testimony (15/06/1960) of Peter Horn, the son of Dr. Maximilian Horn, born 1930; moved to Lublin with his parents in 1943, went to school there; reports in detail on the incidents on 05/11/1943 [see p.63f.]; remembers SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Wirth of ill repute, HJ-Bannfuehrer (Hitler Youth leader) Czichotzki, adjutant of SS- and police leader Globocnik, and SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Hohwinkel (pp.70-72); The following lists were prepared by witness Johann Offermann, assisted by SS-Unterscharfuehrer (sergeant) Karl Klein: List of the staff (1940 - 07/1943) of the SS- and police leader of Lublin, SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) Odilo Globocnik, incl. the leaders of the workshops and the Standortverwaltung (general premises administration), and a description of the 20 halls of the DAW (German arms industry run by the SS); added proposal for the establishment of a large wood processing firm (pp.73-76); List of the staff (08/1943 - 22/07/1944) of the SS- and police leader of Lublin, SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) Jakob Sporrenberg, incl. the leaders of his 16 sub-departments (pp.77-78); Testimony (02/06/1960) of Johann Offermann, born 1907; joined the SS in 1933, conscripted 02/1940; not fit for military actions, he worked in the office of Odilo Globocnik until 07/1943, then in the office of SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) Sporrenberg until 07/1944; after Sporrenberg's transfer to Oslo, Offermann built trenches under General Dr. Merck until transferred to Oslo into Sporrenberg's office in 1945; in a British intern camp until 05/1948 (pp.79-80); - [The following statements seem to complete Offermann's testimonies in a British hearing] He first heard of the mass extermination of Jews from British interrogation officers; he knew Majdanek but never entered the camp; regarding the members of Globocnik's office, he remembers Mohrenschild, predecessor of Nemetz or Lersch, and Willi Nattke, Globocnik's orderly; according to Nattke, Globocnik and his followers were swine; Globocnik stored an enormous fortune in his cellar; he knew Dolp, a notorious drinker, when he was entrusted with the establishment of the arms industry; he knew that the unit Dirlewanger was composed of poachers (pp.81-82); The following testimony is part of the criminal proceedings against Georg Michalsen, Gotthart Schubert and others: Testimony (29/04/1960) of Johannes Mueller, 64 years old, in the criminal investigation department until 1933, in the counterintelligence until 1940; transferred to Warsaw into the staff of KdS Meisinger; transferred to Lublin in summer 1941, he became KdS, but was subordinate to the KdS in Cracow; his predecessor was Huppenkothen (pp.83-84); - Report on Globocnik, the SS- and police leader of Lublin, and his establishment of the German Works led by Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Mohrenschild of the Waffen-SS; on the number and variety of the subordinates permanently at Globocnik's disposal; and on the organization of his own office: I. Department of "general administration"; II. "Intelligence service"; III. "Security services", led by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Biegelmeier, who illoyally directed reports to Standartenfuehrer (colonel) Heim in Krakau and to Berlin; mentioning of SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Krueger; IV."State police", led by Liska; included were: the division "Communism" led by Fischotter, "Corruption within the Department" led by Hofmann, "Church Affairs" led by Steffen, and "Questions regarding Jews"; complaints about Liska who was involved in the so-called "Kommissarbefehl" (Commissar Order) and therefore had von Dorpowski at his disposal; V. "German and Polish Criminal Police" (pp.84-86); - Mueller was not involved in killings; he heard of human destructions in Poland since mid-1942; names five information sources, among them a nervous break down of Globocnik's; refused Globocnik's invitation to visit Belzec; only once did Globocnik supply him with men for an operation against partisans (probably led by Griphan, the leader of the security police); because of tensions between Globocnik and Mueller, SS-Standartenfuehrer (colonel) Dr. Ehlich was sent to arbitrate; finally, when Biegelmeier and Liska denounced him, Mueller was replaced (pp.86-87); - Detailed report on the exchange of 200 Jews for German civilians detained in South America, the related denouncement by Liska and Biegelmeier, a visit of the examining magistrate Dr.Nieding interrogating Mueller's adjutant Schneider who incriminated him through fear: Mueller was ordered to Berlin, imprisoned, released due to a physical collapse, and set under house arrest; report on his further life events until he came to Nuernberg as American prisoner of war, was interrogated by Dr.Kempner, released and finally exonerated (pp.87-89); - He heard of persecutions of the Polish intelligentsia in particular from count Moritz Potocki, a member of the Polish Hilfskomitee (relief committee); his own legal authority was limited; he lists the regional stations of his office; mentions criminal assistent Engels, an evil guy who acted in Isbica and was examined by SS- and police magistrate Dr.Morgen (p.89); Regarding the criminal proceedings against Michalsen, he lists 19 accused men whom he did not know and comments on the following: - Michalsen belonged to Globocnik's staff, - Gustav Hanelt was adjutant of the SS- and police leader of Lublin, - Hoefle boasted of his clearing the Ghetto in Warsaw and shooting Jews hidden in water under washbowls, - Lechner was an Austrian, - Lerch was a friend of Globocnik's and supervisor of his works and labor camps, - Maubach was HJ leader, cultural advisor in the office of the SS- and police leader of Lublin, - Mohrenschild was manager - subordinate to Globocnik - of the German Works in Lublin and perhaps also of agricultural enterprises, - Nemec led the staff in the operation against partisans in Bielgoraj, - Count Pfeil was adjutant of SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) Berkelmann in Dresden, - Wippern was chief administrator of the Waffen-SS, utilized clothing and valuables of murdered Jews and gave them to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Pohl; - Mueller did not know Christian Wirth, but heard, when Globocnik broke down, that he could not "work" without alcohol (pp.89-91); Regarding the criminal proceedings against Schubert, he lists 42 men, not known to him, and comments on the following: - Schubert, leader of the outpost Zamosce, correct but ambitious, examined by Guenter Sachse in connection with the legal proceedings against Engels, - Wendland was occupied in the headquarters in Lublin in the office of Fischotter, - Thieme was in the outpost Zamosce, - Kubin was leader of any outpost; he did not seem to be blameworthy, - Bollmann came from the staff of Biegelmeier to Zamosce, - Braunschweig was seen in Globocnik's casino, - Trautwein is perhaps identical with Trautmann who was leader of an office in Zamosc (pp.91-92); Mueller was never in the strictly guarded camps of Lublin and Majdanek; is sure that Majdanek could not have been used for the extinction of Jews in 1941 or at the beginning of 1942; SS- and police leader Globocnik was subordinate to nobody but Himmler and did not accept instructions from the Higher SS- and Police Leader Krueger in Krakau (pp.92-93); Central office of the regional administrations of justice: Survey of the provisional results of the legal investigations into the complex "Aktion Reinhard", Ludwigsburg 18/11/1960 (pp.94-111) Summary of the present results of the previous investigations, Ludwigsburg 16/01/1961 (pp.112-133); Testimony (15/12/1960) of Konrad Gallen, born 1900; in March 1940 transferred from the warring troops to the defense places Radom, Cracow and Warsaw where he led the department of counterintelligence until May 1944; once a month in the district of Lublin; on special instruction of Admiral Canaris, gathering information important for the safety of the warring troops at the Eastern front (p.134); - He got to know Johannes Mueller, the KdS (commander of the security police) in Warsaw, shortly before his transfer to Lublin, where he met him regularly since the beginning of 1942; he knew Mueller's predecessor Huppenkothen whom he visited regularly since March 1940; asked for members of Mueller's or Huppenkothen's office, he remembers only Liska, the representative of the KdS; - He never heard of a Judenreferat (department concerned with Jews) in the office, nor of the registration and storage of Jewish valuables; his job was the defense of British and Soviet funk agents; Mueller supported him energetically in this job; he never heard of executions in the prison of Lublin, but from Gerhard Kressin he knew about the clearing of the ghetto in Lublin; supported by Mueller, he could enter the ghetto; detailed report on the cruel realization of the clearing through SS men from Lithuania; denial that members of the office of the KdS participated in the clearing (pp.135-138); - According to Mueller, the clearing was instigated by SS- and police leader Globocnik; negative characterization of Globocnik through Zoerner, the governor of Lublin, and Mueller; no knowledge about shootings during the deportations nor about gassing, not familiar with the terms "Aktion Reinhard", "Erntefest" and "Erntehilfe"; he heard of mass executions in Brody, near Tomassow-Lublin; is still in touch with Gerhard Kressin, one of the members of his office; he never heard of shootings of politruks (political officers of the Soviet Army) through German police units; he never heard that members of the office of the KdS were integrated into special commands concerned with the "Endloesung der Judenfrage", nor of shootings of so-called Hofjuden (Court Jews) in 1944 (pp.138-141); Gallen mentions Oberstleutnant (lieutenant-colonel) Czornik as witness of the circumstances in Lublin (p.141); Undated note of prosecutor Schuster regarding a unpublished article of Dr. Dr. Gerhard Stabenow, born 1906, who worked in the office of the SD (security services) in Warsaw, 04/1940 - 06/1943; Schuster cites some parts of it, referring to the command of the SS- and police leader of Lublin during the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto (p.142): - report on the special command of SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Hoefle, a close friend of Globocznigk's, including Hauptsturmfuehrer (captain) Michalsen and Scharfuehrer (staff sergeant) Hantke who arrived in the Ghetto and shot an old Jewess for no reason; - detailed report on the deportation of the families of the Jewish policemen, on their furious reactions and their sudden inexplicable standing to attention in front of Michalsen and Hoefle; - detailed report on a party of Hoefle's in the course of which the Jewish torch-bearers and musicians were taken as marks for target shooting; in the night SS-Untersturmfuehrer (second lieutenant) Gunther Schmidt committed suicide (pp.142-144); The following supplement (18/11/1960) to the testimony of Lothar Hoffmann, is also contained in document 7188628 (pp.213-217): personal data of Hoffmann known to the office of investigation; - Hoffmann remembers Thunak, the driver of the gas van; on the first day of the clearing of the Lublin ghetto, everybody from the office of the KdS had to go to the ghetto, later only the department for Jewish questions was involved; the commander [Globocnik?] had ordered to shoot the sick, the old and orphans; Worthoff knew all about the clearing, was in touch with the Judenrat and had confidential informants, e.g. Grajer, who, according to Kalisch [department for Jewish questions], married a Jewess in the Ghetto (pp.145f); - Statement that 1000 Jews were shot at two trenches during the liquidation of the German arms industry; confronted with the number 24000, he hints at various branches of the works; Kriminalrat (criminal council) and SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Schmer collaborated with Liska, the chief officer of the criminal division; assumption that Schmer and Kalisch assisted actively in the action (pp.146f); - Mentioning a conversation of commander Puetz and SS-Untersturmfuehrer (second lieutenant) Rohlfing confirming the liquidation of the inmates of Lublin prison; mass executions in Majdanek witnessed by Schmer; Hoffmann led 20-30 executions of drumhead court martials, mostly shootings but also hangings; in these cases Domnik clothed Jewish prisoners as hangmen; chairman of the drumhead court martial was the commander [?], Liska, Schmer and Kleyer represented him; the commissioners Fischotter, Hess, Schubert, Worthoff and Sachse, as well as Hoffmann, Steffen and Kleyer acted as associate judges; Jews, seen as criminals, and politically accused people were not tried; with one exception, Hoffmann did not participate in executions through gas (pp.147-149); - After the mass executions, Hein, a member of Hoffmanns office, had to register the value of the Jewish property; asked for his employee Hueter, he assumes that the name was mixed up with that of Klueter, who was deployed together with Hein; no knowledge why Worthoff was in Majdanek when the so-called Court Jews were shot (p.149); Note (07/11/1960) of Staatsanwalt (prosecutor) Zeug concerning information received from Thomas Harlan (on 14/09/1960) who worked in archives in Warsaw; according to Harlan: - the name of SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Hermann Worthoff, expert for Jewish questions in the office of the KdS (commander of the security police), was on a promotion list of participants in "Aktion Reinhard"; - Mahnke, lieutenant of the security police, led all transports of the "Aktion Reinhard", instructed by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Lerch; - SS-physician Dr. Sickel was leader of department IV B4 in the office of the SS- and police leader in Lublin; - a "special command Kluss" operated in the concentration camp of Lublin; - Henny Schneider was secretary of Hoefle; - Hugo Felsch was interpreter in the office of the SS- and police leader; - Ernst Lersch and Sepp Nemec operated in decisive positions in "Aktion Reinhard"; - in a letter (22/07/1942) Globocnik thanks SS-Obergruppenfuehrer (general) Wolf, chief of the personal staff of Reichsfuehrer SS, for the big task which Himmler set him; - according to a statement of SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Offermann, Thomas, a forester, and Erika Fischer, a nurse at Sporrenberg's, are two important witnesses of the events in Lublin; - SS officers Natke and Braun were leaders of executions in Lublin; - due to promotion proposals, Kurt Vollmer, Hermann Dunkel and Karl Klein participated in "Aktion Reinhard"; - SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) Hjalmar Moser was Oberfeldkommandant (chief field commander) in Lublin; his witnesses are Dr. Klaus and Dr. Osor from the agricultural department in the office of district governor Zoerner in Lublin (pp.150f.); Testimony (20/12/1961) of Chawa Kempinski, nee Horowitz, 36 years old, in the Warsaw Ghetto, 12/1939 - 04/1943; report on the preliminaries of the deportations; her father Salomon Horowitz and her sisters Doris and Regina were taken away on 10/09/1942; in 04/1943 she, her mother and her other siblings were transferred to Lublin; her siblings were shot there, her mother perished in Majdanek; she was deported to Auschwitz; detailed report on the picture of devastation in the Warsaw Ghetto after the deportations, on corpses of children and shootings heard from the meeting-point (221-223); Letter (28/12/1961) of Staatsanwalt (prosecutor) Bastini to the Landesgericht (regional court) Salzburg, mentioning that witness Dr. Friedrich Gollat, correctly: Gollert, passed away (p.232); Letter (18/12/1961) of Landgerichtsrat (regional court councilor) Werner to the Leitender Oberstaatsanwalt (senior prosecutor) in Dortmund concerning the parallelism between the legal proceedings against Hoefle and Michalsen; recommendation to interrogate Franz Hoedl from the special command "Sobibor" who was in charge of the motor used for gassing in camp III of Sobibor (pp.243f); [Internal] memorandum of a meeting on 27/01/1943, present were: - SS-Gruppenfuehrer (major general) and Generalleutnant der Polizei (lieutenant general of the police) Globocnik, - SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer (lieutenant colonel) and Kriminaldirektor (director of criminal affairs) Mueller, - Major Preysel, - Major Schwieger, - SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) Hoefle, - Rev,-Ltn.d.Sch. [probably Revierleutnant der Schutzpolizei] Bartel; the main issues discussed were the modalities of police operations in the district of Zamosc (p.247); Letter (02/01/1962) of a German prosecutor to the General Consulate of the West Germany in Philadelphia citing information of the World Jewish Congress: according to Moshe Zylberberg, Hantke, Dolf and Barteschko murdered a larger group of captured Jewish Polish soldiers; Hantke carried out the liquidation of the ghetto in Lublin whereby Nissenbaum, the editor of the Lubliner Tagblatt [name of a daily newspaper] and dozens of Jews were shot (p.250); Copy of a list with the names and characterizations of 24 SS men having "worked" in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the camp of Poniatowa; where the unnamed author of the list lived for five years until he could flee (pp.251-254); Translation (01/12/1961) of the English testimony of witness Jack (formerly Isaak) Eisner, born 1925, in the Warsaw Ghetto until 05/1943; - detailed report on the commander of the SD (security services) Dr. Hahn arriving with a film team in the Ghetto which filmed two groups of Ghetto inmates: (1) well-fed ones had to pose with food formerly given to them and (2) deplorable, hungry looking ones; the film aimed at showing that some inmates of the Ghetto lived at the expense of others; after the filming Hahn killed some of the undernourished inmates (pp.256-258); - report on SS-Oberscharfuehrer (technical sergeants) Klaustermeyer and Flescher or Blecher [Bloesche] who often came into the Ghetto between 06/1942 and 05/1943 and always killed people without cause; while working in the value registration commanded by SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Konrad, he saw Hoefle in 04/1943; interest in knowing if proceedings were initiated against SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer (captains) Brandt and Weiler, SS-Obersturmfuehrer (first lieutenant) Konrad and Untersturmfuehrer (second lieutenant) Untermeier (pp.258-260); Request (04/01/1962) of the examining magistrate at the Landesgericht (regional court) Salzburg to the Oberster Gerichtshof (Supreme Court of Justice) in Vienna to assign the criminal case of Hoefle to the Landesgericht fuer Strafsachen (regonal criminal court) in Vienna; detailed justification of the request (pp.261-271).