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Documentation from the trial of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) in Warsaw, 1943, on the charge of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court; Volume 31: Testimonies regarding the Sobibor extermination camp, 1960-1962

Documentation from the trial of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) in Warsaw, 1943, on the charge of murder of Jews, held in the Hamburg Regional Court; Volume 31: Testimonies regarding the Sobibor extermination camp, 1960-1962 - List of Germans charged with committing war crimes in Sobibor (pp. 7-11); - Testimony of Erich Bauer, truck driver for the Euthanasia organization Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Anstaltspflege; 1940-1942; Stammpersonal (permanent staff) at Sobibor, 1942-1943; charged with being the Gasmeister (gas master) of Sobibor (pp. 12-18); - Testimony of Ada Lichtmann, an inmate in Sobibor, 1942- 1943 (pp. 19-31); - Testimony of Berk Freiberg, an inmate in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1942, and in Sobibor, 1942-1943 (pp. 32-39); - Testimony of Hans-Heinz Schütt, who work at the Euthanasia organization Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Anstaltspflege (pp. 40-46); - Testimony of Stanislaw Szmajzner, an inmate in Sobibor, 1942-1943 (pp. 47-53); - Testimony of Kurt Bolender, overseer of the Jewish Arbeitskommando in Sobibor III (pp. 64-69); - Further testimony of Erich Bauer, truck driver for the Euthanasia organization Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Anstaltspflege; 1940-1942; Stammpersonal at Sobibor, 1942-1943; charged with being the Gasmeister of Sobibor (pp. 70-75, 86-92, 105-120); - Testimony of Kurt Franz, who worked in Belzec, from 1942 (pp. 121-147); - Report entitled "I survived Lublin and Majdanek" by H. Schindler (pp. 157-182); - Testimony of Berta Gottschall, a clerk at the SSPF (pp. 187-191); - Written testimony of Zygmund Warman, head of the Jewish Community office in Warsaw; - Verdict handed down against Hans Elard Ludin and Hermann Höfle, by Volksgericht Pressburg (the People's Court Bratislava), sentencing them both to death by hanging, in Slovak and German (pp. 208-230).
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7217682
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Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
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89
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Slovak
German
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TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
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30/03/1960
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03/09/1962
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NO
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235
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25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 31
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LANDESGERICHT KLAGENFURT
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Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection