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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 36; Trial against Helmut Pohl: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the extermination of Jews in the Lublin area, 1961-1963

Documentation from trials 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 36; Documentation of the trial against Helmut Pohl: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors regarding the extermination of Jews in the Lublin area, 1961-1963 - Letter from Landesgericht Wien to the Central Office in Ludwigsburg regarding documentation concerning several potential witnesses, and suspected criminals involved in the Reinhard and Erntefest "Aktions", 28 January 1963 (pp. 3-20); - Testimony of Rachmil Gartenkraut, a Jewish survivor living in Sao Paolo, Brazil, regarding the deportation from the Lublin Ghetto (translated from Portuguese) (pp. 23-34); - Testimony of Hermann Mewes, a German who served in Polizeibattaillon 104 in Lublin (pp. 35-51); - Testimony of Wilhelm Mars, a German who served in Waffen SS Warsaw, SS Kavallerieregt. Nr.1, 1940, and the SS local administration in Warsaw, 1941 (pp. 53-54); - Testimony of Stefan Baltzer, a German who trained Ukrainian collaborators in the Trawniki camp (pp. 55-59); - Testimony of Leo Bialinski, a German who served in the SS local administration in Lublin from 1941 (pp. 60-65); - Testimony of Talbot Emil Pistor, a German who served as the manager of the Waffen SS military storehouse in Radom from 1942 (pp.66-68); - Testimony of Ernst-Eduard Butte, a German who served at the of the Waffen SS military storehouse from 1943 (pp.69-71); - Testimony of Walter Scholl, a German who was active in the Selbstschutz (Self-protection- a paramilitary organization created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe) in Lublin (pp.72-76); - Letter from the Central Office in Ludwigsburg to Landesgericht Hamburg regarding documentation concerning the war criminals Gottlieb Hering and Heinrich Gley, crimes committed in Majdanek, Pulawy, Lipowa street and the Poniatowa camps as well as by the Dirlewanger commando, and several potential witnesses and suspected criminals involved in the Reinhard and Erntefest "Aktions", 15 November 1961 (pp. 77-82); - Testimony of Samuel Blade, a Jewish survivor from Krasnik, who was an inmate in Budzyn, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau (pp. 83-89); - Testimony of Rudolf Reder, an inmate in the camp in Janowska street (p. 99); - Testimony of Otto Schiemann, a German employed at the Schultz company in the Warsaw Ghetto, from 1942 (pp. 105-112); - Testimony of Otto Stadie, a German member of the SS in Treblinka (pp. 114-118); - Testimony of Willi Mentz, a German member of the SS in Treblinka (pp. 119-121); - German translation of the testimony of Samuel Blade (pp. 166-197); - Testimony of Samuel Blade in Swedish (pp. 198-236); - Testimony of Rudolf Bauch, a German employed at the Toebbens company in the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 244-249); - Testimony of Arje Szklarek, a Jewish survivor born in Plock, regarding the deportation from Komarow to Zamosc, the transfer to Sobibor and conditions in the camp (pp. 250-262); - Documentation from different judicial authorities in West Germany regarding Hans (?) Griemer (pp. 263-265), Franz Reichleitner (pp. 266-267), Heinrich Barbl (pp. 270, 272) and Maximilian Meierhofer (p. 274).
item Id
7217729
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
94
Language
Swedish
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
17/10/1961
Date of Creation - latest
13/12/1962
Original
NO
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 36
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"
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository