Letters of the investigating judges from the Landesgerichte (regional courts) in Klagenfurt and Salzburg to various courts in Austria and Germany requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding Hoefle's activities in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1962

Letters of the investigating judges from the Landesgerichte (regional courts) in Klagenfurt and Salzburg to various courts in Austria and Germany requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors regarding Hoefle's activities in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1962 The letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's vindication; Testimonies by Leopold Schum, Heinrich Unverhau, Robert Franz Xaver Juehrs, Arnold Oels, Kurt Bolender, Werner van Look, Roman Werner, Kurt Gnatzky, Heinrich Haemmerli, Arnold Schuhmacher, Erich Julius Pietsch, Leo Miller, Israel Spiegelstein and Alfons Czapp; Formal accompanying letters of various magistrate or regional courts who examined the witnesses and sent their testimonies to the Landesgericht (regional court) in Salzburg; Testimony (28/12/1961) of Roman Werner, 52 years old, criminal assistent at the criminal police in Warsaw (a subdivision of the office of the KdS), 08/1941 - 05/1942, mostly employed in the police records department, then supervision of a police office with Polish detective constables in Grojec/ Warsaw; no knowledge of specific SS men (pp.50f); Testimony (28/12/1961) of Werner van Look, 67 years old, criminal commissioner at the directorate of the criminal police in Warsaw (a subdivision of the office of the KdS), 10/06/1941 - 05/11/1942; used to prosecute criminal offences, not involved in the clearing of the Ghetto; no knowledge of Hoefle (pp.52f); Testimony (28/12/1961) of Kurt Gnatzy, 54 years old, technical secretary (motor cars) at the office of the KdS in Warsaw, 1939 - 1943; in Lublin 1943 - 1944, later in Krakow; then in an automotive academy of the Waffen-SS in Vienna; no detailed knowledge of the clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto (pp.64f); Testimony (28/12/1961) of Heinrich Haemmerl, 54 years old; criminal secretary at the office of the KdS in Warsaw, 1940 - 1944; concerned with crimes and offences of Reichs- and Volksdeutsche (German Reich citizens and ethnic Germans); not involved in the clearing of the Ghetto, no knowledge of specific SS men (66f); Statement of Hermann Hoefle (11/01/1962): Asked to comment on the request of the Landesgericht (regional court) in Salzburg to delegate his case to the Landesgericht fuer Strafsachen (regional court for criminal affairs) in Vienna, Hoefle consents hoping to accelerate and facilitate thereby the legal procedures (p.81); Testimony (23/12/1961) of Arnold Schuhmacher, 62 years old, employed as aspirant police inspector at the security police in Warsaw, 10/1940 - 09/1941; no knowledge of Hoefle, Globocnik and von Sammern-Frankeneck, but he met Dr.Ludwig Hahn; had only administrative tasks in Warsaw (pp.83f); Testimony (15/12/1961) of Erich Pietsch, 52 years old, employed as police inspector at the office of SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer und Oberregierungsrat (lieutenant colonel and member of the governing council) Dr.Hahn from 05/1943, i.e. after the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, to 07/1944 (pp.94f); Testimony (29/12/1961) of Leo Miller, 37 years old, in the Warsaw Ghetto 1940 - 05/1943, transported to Majdanek and other camps until liberated in May 1945; the deportations started 07/1942, guarded by Ukrainians, Latvians etc; no knowledge of Hoefle, but of the names of Brand, Klostermeier [Klaustermeyer] and Fleschner [Bloesche] from the deportation staff; detailed report on the clearing of the houses and the selections at the meeting point; the cruelties and killings were not kept secret and surely known to the leaders (pp.105-108); Testimony (03/01/1962) of Erich Ernst Karl Mueller, 58 years old, SS-Sturmscharfuehrer (sergeant major) in the intelligence services of the security police in Warsaw, 10/1939 until fall 1944; short report on the clearing and the violent liquidation of the ghetto by a special command from Lublin; no knowledge of the leaders and whether they remained in Warsaw afterwards; a co-worker of Globocnik must have known that the deportations ended in extermination camps (pp.118-120); Testimony (05/01/1962) of Israel Spiegelstein, 45 years old, employed in the police department of the religious Jewish community, 1940 - 10/1941, arrested and imprisoned until 06/1942, in Warsaw until May 1943, then deported to Majdanek; witnessed the deportations and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and knew the names of Globocnik, Dr. Hahn, Brandt, Hantke and Hofmann, but not of Hoefle (pp.122f); Testimony (12/01/1962) of Alfons Czapp, 50 years old, policeman, not involved in the deportations, no knowledge of the relevant persons and facts (pp.134f); Testimony (15/12/1961) of Heinrich Haardt, 52 years old; captain of the security police, employed as intelligence officer at the office of the commander of the Ordnungspolizei (regular police force) in Warsaw, 12/1941 - 10/1944; he heard of the deportations but not of cruelties and killings; he knew the names of Dr. von Sammern-Frankeneck and Dr.Hahn (pp.150f); Testimony (04/01/1962) of Hersz Lewkowicz, 35 years old; in a labor camp of the German Air Force at the airport of Bjelany near Warsaw since the beginning of 1942; he got a permit to the Warsaw Ghetto, but was not allowed to see his father who worked for Toebbens; coming to the Jewish Ghetto hospital with typhoid fever, he saw that all sick people were shot and lay in the courtyard, only the physicians and the nursing staff were present; they told of ill-treatments and executions during the clearing of the Ghetto; after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising all labor camps around Warsaw were dissolved and the workers deported; detailed report on the transport to Majdanek and the following selections; Lewkowicz was transferred to Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen; he did not know specific SS men; thinks that Hoefle must have known of the crimes in the extermination camps (pp.153-157); Testimony (04/01/1962) of Hans-Heinrich Mohr, 39 years old; in a school for SS-Unterfuehrer (sergeants or second lieutenants) in Radolfzell from mid-1941 to mid-1943; he never was in Warsaw or in the extermination camps (pp.159f); Testimony (04/01/1962) of Kurt Naporra, 56 years old; criminal assistent in the office of the KdS in Warsaw, 04/1940 - 07/1944; he had nothing to do with the Warsaw Ghetto and the deportations, did not know who was leader of the deportations; his office was only used for guarding the periphery of the Ghetto on a daily basis; Jews were not ill-treated or shot there (pp.162-164); Results of the psychiatric examination and assessment of Hoefle by Dr. Ernst Hesse, Salzburg, 20/09/1961 (pp.167-179); Requests (06/12/1961) of the persecution in Salzburg to open judicial investigations against the following former SS men from Austria who belonged to the office of the SS- and police leader in Lublin and were involved in "Aktion Reinhard": 1.) Persons whose residence is known: Bohunsky, Hans Eigner, Franz Hoedl, Franz Lerch, Ernst Mohrenschildt, Reinhold Pohl, Helmut Rzepa, Alois Schleissner, Rudolf 2.} Persons whose residence is not known: Doeltl, Anton Egger, Othmaar Farkas, Benedict Hofbauer, Dr. Karl Nemec, Sepp Raich, Josef Rupp, Karl Seltmann, Lothar Wanka, Walter Wukowits, Karl Stangl, Franz Wagner, Gustav 3.} Persons who were already denoted as dead Helletsberger, Karl Knorr, Viktor Stanglica, Dr. Franz Eberl, Dr. Irmfried Reichsleitner, Franz 4.) Request to integrate these persons into the legal proceedings against Hoefle 5.) Request to establish a card index of the names of all suspected persons 6.) Regarding Lerch, reference to document Nr.183 in the book of Berenstein, Eisenbach et al.: Faschismus - Getto - Massenmord 7.) The documentation centre of the Bundesverband der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinden (federal association of Jewish communities) announced the names of the following witnesses already officially noted: Aron Kaufmann, Moshe Zylberberg, Alfred Zimmermann and Benjamin Eichner; reference to a letter of witness Zimmermann regarding his experiences at the meeting point in Warsaw, Hoefle's operation concerning children (beginning on 18/07/1942), his orders concerning the clearing of the Ghetto, and cruelties during the transports to Treblinka 8.) Request to send photos of Hoefle to the Jewish documentation centre (see no. 7) 9.) Request to ask for the SS men, named above (1 to 3), in all rogatory letters 10.) Request to interrogate Helene Szereszewska, wife of a Judenrat member, executed by Hoefle at the time of the deportations; 11.) According to a note of the documentation centre (see no. 7), the Jews from the district of Lublin were deported to the extermination camp Belzec; Belzec is treated in Munich where an extensive body of evidence exists; the criminal investigations focus on: Josef Oberhauser, Heinrich Unverhau, Heinrich Gley and Hans Girtzig; request to identify the documents relevant for the proceedings against Hoefle 12.) Attachment of a copied request of the persecution in Munich to open legal investigations against Josef Oberhauser 13.) Request to examine witness Georg Wippern, born 1908, SS-Sturmbannfuehrer (major) and leader of the SS general premises administration; note that Hermann Kintrupp, born 1891, temporarily commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Lublin, died in 1958 (pp.184-187, again pp.196-200 and repeatedly until the end of the document on p.362); Report on the amount of documents concerning the case of Hoefle (pp.189-191).