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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 37; Criminal proceedings against Helmut Pohl

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 37; Criminal proceedings against Helmut Pohl - Testimony of Rudolf Rieger, Director of the Bevoelkerungswesen und Fuersorge (Population and Welfare) Department in the Kreishauptmannschaft Krasnystaw (pp. 4-6); - Testimony of Fritz Hans Adolf Schmidt, a Kreishauptmann in Krasnystaw, regarding the deportation of Jews from Krasnystaw (pp. 8-9); - Testimony of Willy Grossmann, a porter in the Sonnenstein Heilanstalt (Sanitarium),1939-1941, who worked in Treblinka as an overseer for burning corpses, 1942-1943, and worked for the Ordnungspolizei Triest, 1943-1945 (pp. 10-20); - Testimony of Erich Bauer, a driver for Dienststelle T4 and later in Sobibor, 1941-1945 (pp. 21-23); - Testimony of Michael Jancsak, a member of Reservepolizeibattaillon 61, who served as a guard in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1939-1942, as a trainer for Hilfswillige (volunteer helpers) in Trawniki, 1942-1943, and a guard in the Poniatowa labor camp, 1943-1944 (pp. 25-35); - Testimony of Anton Schmidt, who served at the SS Standortverwaltung in Lublin, 1941- 943 (pp. 37-43); - Testimony of Alois Wallach, a guard in various camps near Lublin and Biala Podlaska, and in the Belzec extermination camp (pp. 45-49); - Testimony of Friedrich Fietz, a member of Polizeibataillon 61 who served in Warsaw and in Trawniki, 1939-1944 (pp. 51-57); - Testimony of Horst Riedl, who served as a Betriebsleiter Lipowalager (supervisor at the Lipowa camp), 1940-41 (pp. 59-68); - Testimony of Fritz Hermann Erich Raake, who worked at the Dienststelle SSPF in Lublin and in Trawniki, 1944 (pp. 70-76); - Poniatow report regarding Nazi war criminals Gottleib Hering and Heinrich Gley; - Testimony of Estera Rubinstein, who was an inmate in a camp (pp. 78-80); - Testimony of Rudolf Reder, who was an inmate in Belzec (pp. 81-86); - Testimony of Marek N., who was an inmate in Gross-Rosen (pp. 87-88); - Testimony of Jozef Abzug, who was an inmate in Budzyn (pp. 88-91); - Testimony of Zygmunt Rubinstein, who was an inmate in Dora (pp. 91-92); - Correspondence between Landesgericht Wien and Landesgericht Bielefeld, 1963 (93-95); - List of people relevant to the Pohl Trial, 1963 (pp. 96-102); - List of people relevant to the Pohl Trial whose whereabouts are unknown (pp. 103-105); - Letter to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler suggesting castration by x-ray (pp. 105-106); - Request for permission for an official trip to the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltung (Central Office of the State Justice Administration) (pp. 107-110); - Invoice for translations, 1963 (pp. 112-113); - Death certificate of Johann Ragger 1963 (pp. 114-115); - Correspondence between District Judge Ernst Schertler and Public Prosecuter Zeug (pp. 116-117); - Correspondence between the Austrian Ministry of Justice and Landesgericht Wien regarding legal aid (pp. 118-125); - Report submitted by Bundespolizeidirektion Wien (Federal Police Board Vienna) regarding the whereabouts of Hans Block (pp. 126); - Decision to translate the requests for legal aid (p. 127); - Request for the death certificate of Lothar Seltmann (p. 128); - Report regarding executions in the area of Warsaw, including a list of executions (pp. 131-135); - Letter from the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltung to the Chief Prosecutor in Landesgericht Hamburg, including a list of details regarding possible witnesses and perpetrators (pp. 136-138); - Letter from the Landeskriminalamt Baden-Wuerttenberg to the Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltung regarding executions in the Budzyn concentration camp (pp. 139-142); - Decree regarding the formation of Jewish ghettos in Lublin and Warsaw (pp. 144-146); - Decree regarding the formation of Jewish ghettos in Radom, Krakow and Galicia (pp. 147-151); - Article from the "Krakauer Zeitung" newspaper regarding the formation of a Jewish ghetto in Lublin, March 1941 (pp. 152-154); - Article from the "Krakauer Zeitung" newspaper regarding the Transferstelle (ghetto administration), May 1941 (pp. 155-156); - Article from the "Krakauer Zeitung" newspaper regarding regulations for the Jews of Riga, August 1941 (pp. 156-157); - Article from the "Krakauer Zeitung" newspaper naming the lawyer Auerswald as Commissioner for the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, May 1941 (pp. 157-158); - Article from the "Krakauer Zeitung" newspaper announcing the removal of Jews from Lublin, April 1942 (pp. 158-159); - Article from the "Neue Züricher Zeitung" newspaper regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, December 1942 (pp. 160-161); -Article from the "Neue Züricher Zeitung" newspaper, December 1942, regarding the fate of Polish Jews, December 1942 (pp. 162-164); -Testimony of Karl Streibel, commander of the Trawniki training camp (pp. 165-168).
item Id
7217732
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
95
Language
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
5/7/1961
Date of Creation - latest
4/4/1963
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
168
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 37
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
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection