Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 29: Documentation of the trial against Hermann Hoefle and Helmut Pohl, 1960-1963

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: Volume 29, Documentation of the trial against Hermann Hoefle and Helmut Pohl, 1960-1963 - Testimony and questioning of Lothar Alfred Josef Weirauch, a German member of the Landesoberverwaltungsrat (Board of Directors) in Krakow, given in Bonn, 15 May 1962, regarding mass executions of Jews, the Warsaw Ghetto and the hanging of Jews; according to Weirauch, he tried to help the Jewish community by issuing decrees to benefit the Jews who had been deported to Krakow, but he was forced to stop the practice (pp. 11-24); - Testimony of Honny Ruth Waltraud Sticher, a German who worked in the Selbstschutz (Self-protection- a paramilitary organization created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe) training Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) from Poland who later were deployed as guards in the Lipowa camp: Information regarding Tante Berta, Hoeffle's aunt; later she became Hoeffle's writer [?] (pp. 25-29); - Testimony of Georg Wippern, a German who worked at the SS Standortverwaltung in Lublin, given in Jaegersburg, Kreis Homburg/Saar, 16 May 1962: Replies to questions regarding Jews employed at the SS Standortverwaltung in Lublin; the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto; the connection between the SS Standortverwaltung in Lublin and "Aktion" Reinhard, and attempted murders through the use of gas vans by Michalsen and Hoefle (pp. 30-44); - Questioning of Walter Alfred Seichter, a German who served in the Waffen SS 12th Division of the Hitler- Jugend, given in Laudenbach, 17 May 1962: Information regarding his actions during his employment at the SS administration in Lublin, the treatment of the Jews during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, knowledge of the fate of the deported Jews and arbitrary executions of Jews in the Lipowa camp (pp. 45-49); - Testimony of Wilhelm Ludwig Helene Moeldner, a German who worked at the local SS administration in Lublin, given in Karlsruhe, 17 May 1962: Information regarding Nazi "Aktions" against Jews, Trawniki, and Nazi connections to Ukrainian guard troops(pp. 50-56); - Testimony of Kurt Walter Erich Reinberger, a German who worked in the Selbstschutz-Einheit in Lublin, given in Neu-Ulm, 21 May 1961, regarding the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 57-66); - Testimony of Theodor Pentziok, a German who served in Polizeibataillion 208, given in Kitzingen, 18 June 1962, regarding the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the commanders who ordered this action, the Poniatowa camp, the treatment of the Jews and the mass execution of Jews in Trawniki, 04 November 1943 (pp. 67-75); - Questioning of Paul Richard Otto Reckleben, a German who worked in the SS Standortverwaltung in Lublin, given in Haf a.d. Saale, 19 June 1962, regarding the Lohnstelle (payroll office) department, the fate of the Jews who also worked in the Lublin local administration and the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto (pp. 76-80); - Questioning of Norbert Nitsch, a German who worked in the Lublin local administration from 1942, during which period he served in the Trawniki training camp for a short time, and then served again in Lublin until the surrender to the Russians, given in Schwaebisch-Gmuend, 16 June 1962: Information regarding the Lohnstelle (payroll office) department, the fate of the Jews who also worked in the Lublin local administration and the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto; Nitsch provides the same information as Paul Richard Otto Reckleben (pp. 81-84); - Questioning of Erich Franz Lange, a German who served in the SS Standortkommandant in Lublin, 1943: Information regarding the following SS personnel: Vollmer, Zerbe, Hegel, Pressel, Hofmann, Ley and others (pp. 85-90); - Questioning of Ewald Walter Ludwig, a German who served in the Waffen SS from 1943 and served in the Lipowa camp: Information regarding the following SS personnel: Mohwinkel, Riedel, Dorndorf, Hausberg, Karl Klein, Alfred Kociel, Lissey, Weiss, Arnold Triebe, Ewald Warwas, Pallapis and Hoffmann; discussion regarding the treatment of the Jews in the Lipowa camp, the liquidation of the camp and various situations involving Jews, which occurred in the camp (pp. 91-98); - Questioning of Tusnelda Helene Maria Preuninger, a German secretary in the SS administration in Lublin, regarding her knowledge of actions of the local administration against Jews (pp. 99-102); - Testimony of Max Schuster, a German who was a Hauptsturmfuehrer in the Waffen SS in Lublin, regarding the Majdanek camp (pp. 103-107); - Questioning of Dr. Friedrich Siebert, a German who worked in the innere Verwaltung (interior administration) regarding the connection of the innere Verwaltung to the extermination of Jews (pp. 108-110); - Testimony of Dr. Richard Korherr: Himmler gave him the order to gather statistics regarding the Jewish situation in Europe,18 January 1943; claim that at that point he did not know that this data was supposed to serve as a basis for the planning of the Endloesung der Judenfrage (Solution of the Jewish Question) (pp. 111-114); - Questioning of Curt Karl Vollner, a Standortkommandatur in Lublin, regarding knowledge of SS "Aktions" against Jews in the Lublin district (pp. 115-120); - Questioning of Johann Fichna regarding his knowledge of "Aktions" against Jews during the war and his personal activities (pp. 121-124); - Testimony of Dr. Walther Foehl, a German who worked at the Amt fuer Bevoelkerungswesen (Population Office), regarding specific information concerning that department (pp.125-129); - Questioning/Testimony of Martin Zellner, a German who served in the 1st SS Totenkopfstandarte Oberbayern from 1939, in Dachau and in Trawniki, regarding the mass execution of 9,000 Jews in Trawniki (pp. 130-131); - Testimony of Adam Hofmann, a German who served as a Kriminalassistent in the Warsaw Gestapo: Detailed information regarding his department (pp. 132-137); - Eye witness account regarding the events in the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto during the liquidation, written by Schuster, dated 19 December 1960; very detailed (pp. 138-150); - Testimony of Leo Miller, a Jew who grew up in Warsaw, whose parents and siblings were killed in Treblinka; when the Ghetto was built in 1940, he was 16 years old: Information regarding the following names: Brand, Klostermeier, Lechner and Frankenstein; further detailed information concerning executions of Jews, including the Jewish Intelligentsia in the Warsaw Ghetto, acts of revenge for Germans who were killed (although the Jews had no connection to the deaths of the Germans), and arbitrary shooting of Jews; he also discusses the extensive mass murders of Jews who were found outside the ghetto (pp.163-166); - Testimony of Naporra Kurt Bruno, a German who served in the Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) in Warsaw 1940-1944, regarding Abteilung IV (pp. 167-170); - Questioning/Testimony of Friedrich Anton Lorenz Sendel, a German who served as Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei (BdO- Commander of the Ordnungspolizei) in Krakow from April 1942: Information regarding various SS officers and positions (pp. 171-172); - Testimony of Alfons Czabp, a German who served in the police from 1931, and in Warsaw from 1943: There were times when police units were used to fight inside the German territories; in 1943, his battalion was transferred to Warsaw, first for a Razzia (round-up) in the Ghetto, then for various "Aktions", such as quelling the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (pp.173-175); - Kurt Franz Bernhard Donajkowski, a German driver for SS OBF Dr. Hahn in Warsaw, 1941-1944: Assertion that Dr. Hahn was not connected to the killing of Jews in Warsaw; information regarding various situations, which should prove his (Dr. Hahn's) innocence (pp. 176-179); - Testimony of Moshe Zylberberg, a Jewish witness, at the time of the testimony, a US citizen, given in Hamburg, 15 June 1962: Questions regarding the following names: Becker, Bloesche, Brandt, Einert, Frankenstein, Hofmann, Hundt, Klaustermeyer, Knoll, Krause, Mende, Orf, Riemann, Ruerschopf, Sachsenhausen, Tschaplinski and Weisinger; he was also questioned regarding the killing of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 190-197); - Questioning/Testimony of Hans Heinrich Konrad Hugo Gustav Antze, a German who worked in the technischer Kriegsverwaltungsrat (technical war administration), 1940-1943 (pp. 198-205); - Questioning of Ewald Sternagel, a German Police Major in Police Battalion 22, in Warsaw from 1943, regarding his Warsaw Ghetto missions (pp. 211-214); - Testimony of Erich Ernst Carl Mueller, a German who served in the Gestapo in Warsaw, 1939-1944: General information regarding the Ghetto Warsaw (pp. 218-223); - Testimony of Willy Schmidt, a German who served in the KdS in Warsaw, 1941-1944, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in 1944, was sent to Buchenwald, and liberated in Buchenwald by the Allied Forces: Description of his work in the Warsaw Police Department (pp. 226-229) - Report regarding Johann Daniel Menssen, a German who worked in the KdS Warsaw, Abtlg.V -Kripo, 1940-1944: Claim to know nothing, although he was responsible for more than 1,000 members of the criminal department of Warsaw (pp. 230-235); - Questioning of Karl Alfred Schluch, a German who worked in Grafeneck in 1940, in Hadamar, 1941, and in Belzec and Poniatowa in 1943: He was questioned about his actions in the concentration camps, the treatment of the Jews and executions (pp. 36-244); - Testimony of Karl Alfred Schluch: Detailed information regarding the activities of the Germans in the Belzec camp (pp. 245-268).