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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 21: Documentation regarding the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto

Documentation from a trial conducted in Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court), Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) and Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) against members of the HSSPF (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer-Higher SS and Police Leader) Lublin: Documentation of the trial, Volume 21, regarding the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto - Request for cooperation between Landgericht Hamburg (the Hamburg Regional Court) and Landesgericht Wien regarding the trials against Michalsen and Dr. Hahn (pp. 5-7); - Testimony of Hubert Gomerski, Wachmannschaften (trainer of guards) in Sobibor, 1942-1943 (pp. 8-12); - Testimony of Gisela (Radloff) Birmes, a clerk at an unnamed German energy supply company in Warsaw, later a clerk at Többens, also in Warsaw, 1942-1943 (pp. 16-17); - Report regarding events covered by the investigation (pp. 18-25); - Notification regarding the death of Wilhelm Freter, a witness (p. 26); - Report on events covered by the investigation, with an added note to interview Wilhelm Freter, Commander of the Rüstungsbetriebe Warschau (Warsaw Armaments Detachment) (pp. 27-35); - Testimony of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, Commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service) in Warsaw from 1942 (pp. 37-39); - Testimony of August Eduard Ernst Dietrich Allers, Regierungsrat in der Kanzlei des Führers; Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Heil- und Pflegeanstalten from 1942 (pp. 48-49); - Report on events covered by the investigation (pp. 50-58); - Testimony of Heinrich Klaustermeyer, employee of the SS and SD Command in Warsaw, 1941-1944, regarding an "Aktion" in the Warsaw Ghetto carried out by a Commando from Lublin (pp. 60-62); - Report on events covered by the investigation (pp. 63-70); - Testimony of Erhard Ernst Max Schulz, Sachbearbeiter für Ostkirchenfragen (person in charge of questions related to the Eastern churches) in Warsaw, from 1940 (pp. 72 - 73); - Report on events covered by the investigation (pp. 74-81); - Testimony of Karl Gustav Prefi, Lagerführer im Arbeitslager Treblinka I (pp. 83-84); - Report on events covered by the investigation (pp. 86-94); - Testimony of Josef Hirtreiter (p. 97); - Testimony of Heinrich Theiss, civil servant at the Sicherheitspolizei and Sicherheitsdienst command in Warsaw, 1941-1944 (pp. 100-101); - Documents regarding the promotion of SS Hauptsturmführer Ernst Lerch (pp. 105-119); - Testimony of Bazyli Babinski, an inmate in Majdanek from 1942, regarding the murder of two young Jewish men and, on another occasion, the murder of six men in Majdanek (pp. 129-131); - Annotation on the interrogation of Michalsen and Hantke (pp. 132-133); - Testimony of Rudolf August Bauch, an employee of the Többens textile company, regarding the building of three textile factories employing Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. (pp. 139-150); - Testimony of Werner Schindler, an inmate in Lublin-Lipowastreet, 1940-1943 (pp. 155-161); - Testimony of Jacob Rudnianski, an inmate in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 (in French with German translation) (pp. 168-176).
item Id
7188660
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
78
Language
French
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
29/01/1962
Date of Creation - latest
16/02/1962
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
176
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 21
Location of Originals
LANDESGERICHT KLAGENFURT
Connected to Item
Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"