Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 45: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors

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 45: Testimonies by perpetrators and survivors Criminal proceedings against Helmut Pohl, Georg Michalsen and others. - Cover page regarding the proceedings against Helmut Pohl (pp. 2); - Correspondence between courts: requests for files, side letters, etc. (pp. 1- 10); - Testimony of Michael Dorndorf, a Nazi who served in Lublin and Chelm, during interrogation regarding "Aktion" Reinhard and "Aktion" Erntefest: Statement that he cannot remember any murders or similar acts committed by Eigner, Farkas, Lerch, Rzepa or Schleissner (pp. 11-15); - Testimony of Helmut Pohl: Arrest for NS activities, 1936; drafted to the Waffen SS, late 1939; service in Krakow and Posen; return to his civilian job, 1940; drafted again, 1942; sent to the SS Ersatzbataillon Ost in Breslau and Lublin, 1942; work on Quartierbeschaffung (accommodation acquisition) under SSPF Globocnik's command (pp. 16-19); - Testimony of Dr. Harry Sturm, Volkstumsreferent (folklore consultant), 1940-1942, consultant for Jewish Matters, 1941-1942; assigned to Department III Security Service (SD) of the Kommandeure der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Kds-SIPO and SD Headquarters) Lublin, regarding N. Block, Ernst Lerch and Reinhard Mohrenschildt (pp. 20-23); - Request for the interrogation of Dr. Harry Sturm, Hersch Wenkhart, Klara Wenkhart and Robert Jührs regarding various subjects pertaining to the trial, including various "Aktions" against Jews and Polish citizens, with emphasis on "Aktion" Reinhard and "Aktion" Erntefest (pp. 25-27); - Testimony of Wolfgang Mohwinkel, workshop manager and Werkleiter (overseer) in the Lipowa camp: Description of the camp and the liquidation of the camp; information regarding Franz Eigner, Benedikt Farkas, Ernst Lerch, Max Meierhofer, Reinhold Mohrenschildt, Josef Reich, Rudolf Schleissner and Lothar Seltmann (pp. 28-34); - Request from Landesgericht Wien to the local Court of Nürtingen for the interrogation of Wolfgang Mohwinkel regarding events in the Lipowa camp (pp. 35-38); - Testimony of Kurt Bolender, SS Scharführer in Sobibor 1942, providing information regarding Heinrich Barbl, Franz Hüdl, and Dr. Eberl, whom he met in Hartheim; Ferdl Grümer, who was also Stammpersonal (Permanent staff) in Sobibor; Gützinger who worked in Hartheim and Sobibor; Franz Stangl, the Sobibor camp commander; Karl Streibel, who was on the staff in Sobibor, Gustav Wagner, and staff in Hartheim and Sobibor (pp. 42-51); - Testimony of Kurt Franz, SS Oberscharführer in Belzec, 1942, stationed in Treblinka, 1942-1943: Information regarding Heinrich Barbl, some members of the SS staff in Hartheim and Belzec, Ferdl Grömer, a cook in Hartheim, and Franz Stangl, the Treblinka camp commander (pp. 51-54); - Testimony of August Miete, on the staff in Treblinka, 1942-1943: Information regarding Dr. Eberl, the Treblinka camp commander, and Stangl, Dr. Eberl's successor as camp commander (pp. 54-57); - Testimony of Ernst Brosig, on the staff in Standortverwaltung Lublin: Information regarding Reich, who worked in administration at Standortverwaltung Lublin, and Rzepa, who worked in the Financial Department at Standortverwaltung Lublin (pp. 61-63); - Testimony of Alexander Pflanzer, Waffen SS member in Lublin, who worked at the SS Standortverwaltung, 1941-1943: Information regarding Wippern, the head of the Standortverwaltung, Rzepa, in charge of finance at the Standortverwaltung Lublin and Huber, Wippern's deputy (pp. 64-67); - Testimony of Karl Streibel, Nazi personnel at Belzec and the Trawniki training camp: Information regarding Ernst Lerch, adjutant to Globocnik; suggestion that Michalsen be interrogated (pp. 85-89); - Letter to the chief prosecutor of Landesgericht Hamburg listing the whereabouts of Fritz Reuter and Dr. Föhl, including excerpts from a letter written by Dr. Föhl stating that every day they received trains with over 1,000 Jews who are then driven into the swamps (pp. 92-94); - Testimony, minus the first pages, apparently of a female typist from the SSPF Lublin (pp. 97-100); - Testimony of Georg Wippern, responsible for setting up the SS Standortverwaltung, 1941-1944, and in charge of preparing Jewish valuables for the Reichsbank: Information regarding the Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka camps and SS Standortverwaltung Lublin; assertion that Reichenwallner was one of the commanders of executions in the area of Cholm; information regarding Höfle and Michalsen; - Letter from Georg Wippern to Investigator and Kriminalkommisar (Crime Commissioner) Hans Beixen (pp. 113-114); - Testimony of Josef Kölbl, who was in charge of the vehicles for department T4, 1940-1944; - Testimony of Benjamin Eichner, witness to executions conducted by Hermann Höfle and rickshaw driver for Esterlein, commander of the camp in Wildstr. 44 which held four hundred Jewish inmates: Information regarding Dirk, the camp commander, Geipel, responsible for Werteerfassung (valuables acquired); Weiland, Geipel's driver who shot Jews on various occasions; Schubert, San A or SD functionary, who worked with Werteerfassung; Kurtz, commander of Werteerfassung for the camp; Kutschera, who served on the Räumkommando (clearing commando); Sauer, commander of Werteerfassung in Lesznostraße; Schleder, who served on the Sonderkommando and Frankenstein (nickname for Blösche), who was in charge of checking the walls of the ghetto (pp. 117-126); - Testimony of Gedala Bines, detained as a 12- year old forced laborer on a farm in Belz, near the Russian border, from July 1940, who returned to his family in Krasnik after escaping from the farm: Witness to deportations of the Jews of Krasnik in 1941, identification of SS Oberscharführer Frank, Polizeihauptwachtmeister Körner, SS-Scharführer Stotschek and SS Oberscharführer Müller as people who shot Jews; deportation to the Budzyn camp until1944; testimony regarding the camp commander Veith/Feiks who allegedly shot Jews without any reason; listing of Israel Wein, Michael Henner and his father Josef Bines as persons who could give additional testimony (pp. 127-132); - Letter to Mrs. Bines, wife of Josef Bines, asking her when her husband would be available to give testimony at the Central Office of the State Justice Administration for the Investigation of National Socialist crimes (pp. 133); - Testimony of Samuel Kamien: Life in Warsaw, 1939-1943; an inmate in the Lublin, Dorohucza, Radom, Auschwitz and Veihingen concentration camps; liberation in Dachau; rickshaw driver for Doehr in Warsaw; description of murders by Klaustermeyer and Mende (pp. 134-136); - Letter from the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany regarding some Jewish witnesses who do not want to testify (pp. 137); - Letter from Walther Föhl to his comrades (pp. 138-139); - Indictment on the charge of murder against Rudolf Bauch submitted by the Zentralkomitee der befreiten Juden in der U.S. Zone Deutschland (Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany) containing excerpts from the testimonies of S. H. Hoffenberg and Samuel Rajzman (pp. 140-142); - Notification from the prosecution stating that Rudolf Bauch was released because there was no extradition request (pp. 143); - Request for the files of the Toebbens Trial in order to gather more evidence against Rudolf Bauch (pp. 144-145); -Testimony by Rudolf Bauch, director of factory II (two) and III (three) of the Toebbens factories in the Warsaw Ghetto: Testimony regarding deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto, his work in the Poniatowa camp and the liquidation of the Poniatowa camp (pp. 146-165); - Testimony of Gisela Neitzel (pp. 165); - Testimony of Heinrich Rubinlicht, forced laborer at the Toebbens company (pp. 166-167); - Testimony of Samuel Henryk Hoffenberg, forced laborer at the Toebbens company: Assertion that Bauch handed over the children of Jewish laborers to the SS (pp. 167-168); - Testimony of Rudolf Bauch regarding allegations that he killed a baker's apprentice; reassertion of his claim that he did not commit any crimes whatsoever (pp. 169-173); - Letter from the War Criminals Department to the senior prosecutor in Hagen stating that neither the War Criminals Department nor the American Joint Distribution Committee's Legal Aid Department have further evidence regarding Rudolf Bauch (pp. 174); - Testimony of Walter Toebbens, owner of the Toebbens factories, asserting that he is not aware of any crimes committed by Rudolf Bauch, and suggesting that Heinrich Lauts be interrogated for further information (pp. 175-177); - Testimony of Dr. Heinrich Lauts, employed at the Toebbens factories, regarding Rudolf Bauch (pp. 178-179); - Testimony of Rudolf Bauch regarding allegations that he killed a baker's apprentice (pp. 180-181); - Order to end the proceedings against Rudolf Bauch for lack of evidence (pp. 182-184); - Testimony of Helena Hirschberg, a Jewish woman who lived in Warsaw with forged Aryan documents and worked for Dal, the Polish company managed by Fritz, a company that also employed Jewish laborers in workshops in the Warsaw Ghetto: Witness to deportations from the Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto; identification of Michalsen and Conrad as overseers of the deportations, and Brandt as one of the people who conducted selections; information regarding the liquidation of the Dal workshop in the Warsaw Ghetto, and her transfer to the Transavia company, which manufactured aircraft parts for the Wehrmacht (pp. 185-212); - Testimony of Gustav Hanelt, head of the research department for Ostunterkünfte (accommodation in the East) in Lublin, also in charge of establishing a Mannschaftshaus (an SS crew house) in Lublin, 1940-1943: During his work in Lublin, he also devised plans to establish SS und Polizeistützpunkte (SS and police bases) in former Polish farms; listing of some of the employees of the research department; information regarding Lerch, Michalsen, Globocnik, Höfle, Wippern, Maubach, Streibel and Müller (213- 241); presence of Michalsen during Hanelt's interrogation (241-245); exit of Michalsen and inclusion of Streibel at Hanelt's interrogation (pp. 245-249); - Testimony of Georg Michalsen regarding Gustav Hanelt's participation in the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto (pp. 250-254); - Testimony of Rabbi Abraham Ziemba, an inmate of the Warsaw Ghetto until April 1943: Deportation to Budzyn, April 1943-June 1944; transfer to Radom, Auschwitz, Vaihingen and Hessenthal; liberation in Allach near Dachau, 30 April 1945; description of a killing by Klaustermeyer that he witnessed; the actions of Flescher and Globocnik in the Warsaw Ghetto; a murder committed by Tausche, Sturmbannführer in Budzyn (pp. 255-260); - Testimony of Dr. Richard Wendler, Zivilgouverneur (Civil Governor) of the Lublin district, 1943-1944: Information regarding about a meeting involving Globocnik, Himmler and the witness to discuss Globocnik's activities in Lublin; claim that this meeting subsequently lead to Globocnik's transfer to Trieste/Italy (pp. 261-265); - Testimony of Josef Kaspar Oberhauser, who worked in an Euthanasia Institution in Bernburg until 1941, afterwards commanding officer for Hilfswillige (Ukrainian volunteers) in Belzec and Lublin: Information regarding Wirth, who worked in the Lublin-Airport Camp, close to Majdanek (pp. 266-276); - Testimony of Israel Wein, an inmate of the Krasnik Ghetto, 1933-1942, who witnessed two "Aktions" there, a forced laborer in the Heinkel factories in Budzyn, October 1942 regarding the witnessing of the murder of a young Jewish man by Hantke (pp. 277-285); - Testimony of Maurice Markus, born in Warsaw and a resident of Warsaw until May 1943: Detention in a labor camp in Pruszkow as a 13 year old boy, 1939-1941; description of the killing of a 15 year old boy by a policeman in the ghetto, the shooting of escaping Jews, a large selection known as "der Kessel an der Mila", and an SS man who raped and killed Jewish women; work in Moktow, from March 1943; in hiding in a cellar during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; exit from his hiding place when the house above was set on fire; deportation to Treblinka; transfer to the Budzyn camp; work in the Heinkel factories; on arrival at Budzyn, witness to the shooting of a Jewish doctor by Feix, in order to scare the deportees into handing over their valuables; on another occasion, witness to the torture and murder of a man hiding his valuables by Feix; more descriptions of atrocities committed by Feix; transfer to a camp under the command of Leipold and his deputy Kleist, where the general conditions were better; reference to a former SS man who was incarcerated with him after the war, for additional testimony.