Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, volume 48; Correspondence between Landesgericht Wien and other regional courts regarding interrogation requests and rogatory letters; testimonies by survivors and accused; investigations of the Belzec extermination camp

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 48; Correspondence between Landesgericht Wien and other regional courts regarding interrogation requests and rogatory letters; testimonies of survivors and accused; investigations of the Belzec extermination camp - Letter to District Judge Dr. Ernst Schertler from prosecutor Dr. Kloeckner containing a copy of correspondence from Marianne Ullmann, a secretary of Globocnik (p. 4); - Letter from the Ministry of Interior, 20 August 1963 to Landesgericht Hamburg containing identification of Maria Ullmann, born in Wien, 16 April 1922, a secretary of Globocnik; personal information regarding "Mimi" Ullmann (pp. 5-7); - Testimony of Gedala Bines in police headquarters in Duesseldorf: Born in Krasnik, 10 December 1928; description of "Aktions" against Jews in Krasnik in 1942; during the third "Aktion", the Jews were ordered to report to Zaklikow, but he and his father returned to Krasnik where they were gathered in the synagogue for a selection: the people who on the right side were deported to the Budzyn camp and those on the left side were shot at the cemetery; arrival of the witness and his father at Budzyn; conditions in Budzyn; transfer the Radom camp; transfer to other camps; liberation by the US Army (pp. 8-13); - Letter from Landesgericht Stuttgart to Landesgericht Wien, 25 September 1963, regarding the testimony of Gustav Knochenmuss, 06 August 1963 (p. 14); - Testimony of the 80 year old pensioner Gustav Knochenmuss in Landesgericht Stuttgart, 25 September 1963: Confirmation of his testimony from 06 August 1963; assertion that he cannot identify any of the accused (p.15-17); - Interrogation request to Landesgericht Stuttgart, handwritten notice (pp. 18-19); - Letter from Landesgericht Wien to Dr. Kloeckner, the prosecutor (p. 20); - Hand drawing of the Lipowa camp by the witness Cynowiec (p. 21); -Testimony of the butcher Leo Lotholz in Essen, 27 August 1963: Born in Rudolfin, 05 December 1919; work for the Selbstschutz (Self-protection- a paramilitary organization created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe) in Lublin as a butcher until autumn 1941-spring 1942; work as a guard for the Judenarbeitslager der Deutschen Ausruestungswerke (Jewish labor camp of the German Armaments Works); transfer to Zamosc, summer 1942; work for the SS police resettlement office; motorcycle accident, 1942; hospitalization in Zamosc until January 1943; ordered to report to the district commissioner in Pulawy, spring-summer 1943; transfer to the district commander of Sochaczew, spring 1944; listing of participants in the Selbstschutz/Sonderdienst; service as a guard and responsibility for the post in the Lipowa camp; comments regarding Mohwinkel and his activities in Lipowa; description of "Aktions" against Jews in Pulawy and Zamosc; identification of some of the accused from photographs (pp. 22-31); - Testimony of Karl Walter Klein in Neunkirchen, 30 August 1963: A member of the SS from 1935; arrival at Selbstschutz Lublin, 18 February 1940; work in the Deutsche Ausruestungswerke (German Armament Works) house management, responsibility for issuing work orders and managing the work in the Lipowa camp until June 1942; transfer to Trawniki, June 1942; establishing the clothing factory until September 1942, including frequent entries into the ghettos of Lublin and Warsaw when transporting material; service as an SS and police guard in Lublin, September 1942; work as part of the staff until 1943-1944; transfer to Krasnik and Oslo to do administrative work; testimony regarding the names and the people who were Selbstschutz members and worked in the Trawniki and Krasnik camps; answers to questions concerning the situation, condition and killing process in the Lipowa camp; comments regarding different testimonies of witnesses who testified concerning "Aktions" against Jews; discussion of the liquidation of the Lipowa camp, 03 November 1943; handing over of two photographs, one showing a model of the Lipowa camp (pp. 32-58); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Roewer, an employee of the judicial service, 09 October 1963, containing a protocol from 30 August 1963 (p. 59); - Testimony of the 59 year old physician, Dr. Dietrich Mahler: P. 61 is illegible (pp. 60-61); - Letter from Prosecutor Beier to District Judge Dr. Ernst Schertler containing an interrogation request regarding Irmgard Lakin, the former secretary and fiancée of Globocnik (p. 62); - Interrogation request from District Judge Dr. Ernst Schertler to Landesgericht Wiesbaden; Dr. Schertler would like to hear the testimonies of the witnesses Walter Hess and Erika Fischer (pp. 63-64); - Testimony of the 55 year old insurance worker Walter Hess in Wiesbaden, 10 October 1963: Arrival in Lublin, April 1940; service as a detective; director of counter espionage until October 1943; transfer to Chelm until 20 July 1944; identification of some people on the list of those accused (pp. 65-67); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Prosecutor Verres, 15 October 1963, containing a protocol from the interrogation report of Erika Fischer and Walter Hess (p. 68); - Testimony of the 56 year old nurse, Erika Fischer: The witness cannot identify the people from the list of the accused; service as a nurse in Lublin, 12 October-December 1943 (pp. 69-70); - Letter from Landesgericht Hamburg to police authorities in Amberg with an interrogation request regarding Irmgard Laking; request that she should be questioned regarding the names on the list of the accused (p. 71); - List of names of defendants in the criminal proceedings in Landesgericht Wien (p. 72); - Letter from Landesgericht Hamburg to Landesgericht Wien, 25 October 1963, containing an interrogation protocol (p. 73); - Testimony of August Karl Hengst in Hamburg, 01 October 1963: Born in Bonn, 25 August 1905; work in the Hitler's office, 1940; transfer to the T4 office; work in the Brandenburg Euthanasia camp and in Bernburg as a chef; transferred to Treblinka, 1942; description of the organization and conditions at Treblinka; transfer to Lublin, September 1943; work at the labor camp (as opposed to the extermination camp); work in Lublin and in Udine/Italy as a chef; comments regarding different names on the list of the accused (pp. 74-78); - Testimony of Irmgard Lakin in Landesgericht Hamburg, 07 October1963: Born in Berlin, 08 December 1920; work for the Auslandsamt der Reichsjugendfuehrung (International Office of the Reich Youth Leadership) and for Maubach of SSPF Lublin, spring 1940-September 1942; work for the Propaganda Ministry, from 10 October 1942; description of the organization of SSPF Lublin, and the names of its directors; engaged to Odilo Globocnik, 1941; moved into Globocnik's house, 1941; visit from Himmler; breaking off of the engagement shortly after Himmler's visit; transfer to the Sobiszyn farm in the Warsaw district, summer 1942; return to Berlin; assertion that she never heard anything regarding the extermination of Jews; a note on the page indicates that she seems to be authentic (pp. 79-93); - Letter from Landesgericht Hamburg to Landesgericht Wien containing a copy of the testimony of the witness Irmgard Lakin from 30 October 1963 (p. 94); - Letter from the Criminal Investigation Department in reference to the testimony of Irmgard Lakin (p. 95); - Testimony of Irmgard Lakin in Amberg, 30 October 1963: Identification of various names from the list of the accused; comments regarding the people she identified (pp. 96-98); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Prosecutor Schuenke in Amberg, 25 October 1963, containing a copy of the protocol of the testimony of Erich Bauer (p. 99); - Testimony of the 63 year old driver Erich Bauer in Landesgericht Tiergarten, Berlin, 09 October 1963: Identification of various names of the defendants; comments regarding the people he identified; arrival of the witness at Sobibor, 1942; confirmation of his testimony from 10-11 December 1962 (pp. 100-105); - Interrogation request from District Judge Dr. Ernst Schertler to Landesgericht Tiergarten, Berlin, 22 August 1963; Dr. Schertler would like to hear the testimony of the witness Erich Bauer regarding the accused [Heinrich] Barbl, [Franz] Hoedl, [Anton] Getzinger and [Ferdl] Groemer (pp. 106-108); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Landesgericht Hamburg, 23 July 1963 containing three photographs of the building at Zelazna Str. 99-103 in Warsaw and a covering letter from the expert Dr. Hans Krannhals from 24 June 1963 (pp. 109-111); - Letter to the Prosecutor Beier from Dr. Hans Krannhals, 24 June 1963, with the attachment of three photographs of the building in which the ghetto command of the security police in Warsaw under Brandt was situated, taken in May 1963: Photo a) shows houses no. 101 and 103 from Nowolipie; Photo b) shows the same houses with a zoom view; Photo c) shows the houses from the northern perspective (p. 112); - Illegible handwritten note (p.113); - Photographs of the houses that appear on p. 112 (pp. 114-119); - Illegible letter to Heinrich Thole, from the State Archives in Nuremberg (p. 122); - Testimony of Fritz Karl Albert Bleich in Nuremberg, 27 November 1946, most parts illegible: Member of the SA from 1933; inducted into the army, June 1942; service as registrar for Dr. Brandt, the Generalkommisar fuer das Sanitaets- und Gesundheitswesen (General Commissioner for Medical and Health Care), 1942-June 1944; work at the Sanitaetsersatzabteilung (Medical Depot) from June 1944; taken captive in Westerhausen, March 1945; testimony regarding the Dienststelle des Generalkommisars fuer das Sanitaets- und Gesundheitswesen (Office for Medical and Health Care) under Brandt; comments regarding Dr. Karl Brandt and his activities and his position; confirmation of the Euthanasia Program and its Euthanasia Centers; listing and explanation of the abbreviations of the different Euthanasia Centers Grafeneck, Bernburg, Brandenburg, Hartheim, Pirna-Sonnenstein and Hadamar; description of the organization and operations of the Euthanasia Centre; explanation of 1) the technical process involved in the selection of people to be killed; 2) Trostbriefe (comforting letters), the information given to the relatives regarding the cause of the death of their loved one; 3) Mistreatment of the ill persons; 4) Personal finances of the murdered people; 5) The need for a new field of work following a 1943 letter from Hitler ordering the Euthanasia Centers to stop the killing of mentally ill people and begin the killing of Jews and political enemies; 6) Medical experiments involving Jews; 7) The connection between the Euthanasia Program and the extermination of Jews; 8) Mission in Italy; 9) Photos regarding the atrocities committed by the foundation; 10) The killing of Poles, Czechs and others; 11) The period of time that Dr. Karl Brandt was active at the foundation; 12) Brandt and his managerial position at the foundation as the head of the Euthanasia Program; Affidavit in which the witness Karl Bleich swears that Dr. Becker was the economic manager of the foundation, that Dr. Brandt was responsible for the gas delivery and Dr. Brandt participated in the killing process of Jews and Poles; sworn affidavit that Christian Wirth was Major of the Security Police (SchuPo), the head of the Euthanasia Centre police and Christian Wirth participated in extermination actions against Jews in Treblinka (pp. 123-134); - Excerpts from the book "Der letzte Jude aus Polen" (The Last Jew From Poland), by Dr. Stefan Szende, published 31 March 1944: Excerpt from the chapter "Die Flucht" (The Escape), which describes the life of the Jews and their persecution; Excerpt of the chapter "Altstofferfassung" which contains a report by the Jew Adolf Folkman, who worked at a bottle factory in Krakow (pp. 135-142); - Copy of the protocol from the visit to the Belzec extermination camp by the examining magistrate Czeslaw Godziszewski and by the prosecutor Leon Witkowski, containing a detailed description of the location, conditions and founding of Belzec (pp. 144-146); - Testimony of Marian Zbierajawski in Belzec, 10 October 1945: Work as a railway worker at the Ruwa Ruska station until May 1944; witness to the transport trains with the Jews, Gypsies and people of various nationalities passing the Ruwa Ruska station, late 1942-late 1943 (pp. 147-148); - Testimony of Andrzej Jonko in Belzec, 10 October1945: Work as a railway worker at the Ruwa Ruska station, August 1942-May 1944; the first train with Jews from Lwow to Belzec passed on 10 April1942; transports with 20 train cars to Belzec every day from April 1942; less frequent transports during winter 1943-1944; complete cessation of transports to Belzec, March 1944; description of his visit to the Belzec camp and conditions there (pp. 149-150); - Testimony of Evstachy Ukrainski in Belzec, 11 October 1945: Building the Belzec extermination camp, 01 November 1941; description of the organization, the killing process, the location and the liquidation of Belzec; the camp was active, March-December 1942; during this time approximately 500 transports of Jews arrived in Belzec (pp.151-154); - Exhumation at the Belzec extermination camp cemetery, 12 October 1945: Discovery of the ashes of burned corpses, clothing, hair and bones (pp.155-156); - Protocol of an autopsy in Belzec, 13 October 1945: Presentation of bones, hair, ash, burned corpses and dentures of different people found at the exhumation site in the cemetery in the area of the Belzec camp, 12 October 1945; determination by the experts that the findings are from humans (pp. 157-159); - Testimony of Stanislaw Kozak: Forced to build up barracks in Belzec with 20 other men, 1941; description of the camp and its gas chambers; witness to the deportation and murder of Jews, March-autumn 1942; description of the liquidation of the camp and its demolition; drawing of a plan of the Belzec camp (pp. 160-164); - Testimony of the witness Jan Glab: Description of the building of the camp, September 1941; description of the killing process, location, transports and burning of Jews in Belzec; description of the demolition of the camp (pp. 165-167); Testimony of the industrial worker Rudolf Reder, 29 December 1945: Born in Debica, 04 April 1881; description of the first "Aktion" against Jews, August 1942; being hidden by the Kobzdej family; deportation to a barrack in Podzamcze; transfer to the Belzec camp, 17 August 1942; description of the killing process of Jews, the gas chambers and conditions at the camp; selection to work as a machinist in the camp due to his special knowledge; escape when a guard fell asleep; in hiding in a factory for 20 months; survival (pp. 168-173); - Report regarding the results of the investigation of the Belzec extermination camp containing a detailed description of the gas chambers, location and killing process of Jews, as well as the names of the staff who worked at the camp; description of obliteration of the traces of the camp by burning the corpses and planting pine trees, including a demonstration of the findings (pp. 174-177); - Testimony of Jan Glab, 19 February 1946: Testimony regarding the accused Wirth, Schwarz and other members of the SS, and their activities in the Belzec camp (pp. 179-181); - Report regarding the results of the investigation of the Belzec extermination camp containing a summary of the facts that appeared in all the previous documents: a detailed description of Belzec, the location, the killing process, the obliteration process, commandants and staff at Belzec (pp. 182-186); - Letter from the Governor of the Warsaw district to the Director of the Main Economic Department, President Dr. Emmerich, containing a progress report for 1939-45 regarding the economic administration in the Warsaw district (p. 187); - Overview regarding the structure of the progress report 1939-45 (p. 188); - Sub item 4: Das Judenproblem (The Jewish Problem) containing an explanation of the connection between the Jewish Problem and the economy (pp. 189-196).