Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, volume 49: Testimonies of accused and survivors regarding "Aktion" Reinhard, the liquidation of the ghettos in Lublin and Warsaw and the Schultz company

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 49: Testimonies of accused and survivors regarding "Aktion" Reinhard, the liquidation of the ghettos in Lublin and Warsaw and the Schultz company - Yad Vashem file card (pp. 1-3); - Testimony of Margarete Scherf in Amberg, 10 May 1963: Born in Danzig, 04 June1902; handing over of a letter addressed to her husband from Karl Martens, the tax consultant, 29 June 1944, in order to confirm that he was in Warsaw from October-November 1942; the witness worked for Mr. Schultz and his company in Warsaw as Schultz' secretary; testimony regarding resettlement "Aktions" and selections in the Warsaw Ghetto; comments concerning various SS members who were stationed in Warsaw; identification of some of the defendants from photographs; comments regarding those she identified; testimony concerning the resettlement "Aktion", spring 1943; statement that the Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Trawniki; provision of bread and coffee during the "Aktions"; supervision of a group of Jews who were sent to Trawniki, March 1943; departure of Scherf from Warsaw, July 1944; the witness was in Trawniki two or three times, but she never heard of shootings [of inmates] (pp. 4-18); - Testimony of Franz Friedrich Karl Scherf in Amberg, 09 May 1963: Born 18 March 1897; work as Commercial Manager of the Rauchwarenveredelungs GmbH factory in Danzig, until 1942; arrival in Warsaw to work for the Schultz Company and direct its subsidiary company, 28-29 October; identification of names of Schultz Company workers; statement regarding inclusion of Jewish workers in the Warsaw factory; comments regarding members of the SS serving in the administration in Warsaw and Lublin; identification of the accused from photographs; description of the selection, resettlement "Aktions" and liquidations in Warsaw and Lublin; testimony regarding the Stroop "Aktion" following which most of the Jews were deported to the Trawniki and Poniatowa camps (pp. 19-40); - Letter from Franz Scherf to Prosecutor Beier, 10 June 1963, containing two documents which Scherf offers as proof of his residence and his activities in Warsaw and Danzig (p. 41); - Testimony of Johanna Klimanek: Born in Berlin, 24 June 1907; arrival in Warsaw to work for the Schultz Company, April 1943; work as the secretary of the Schultz company in Trawniki until 15 September 1943; statement that she heard of the liquidation and saw 50 women who sorted different items (pp. 43-45); - Testimony of the master furrier Georg Alfred Klimanek in Bamberg, 06 May 1963: Born in Kattowitz, 30 January 1904, and served as a member of the Wehrmacht in Posen in 1941; work for the Schultz company in Warsaw; work later in Trawniki as the technical director of the pelt department; identification of different employees of the Schultz company, participants in the resettlement "Aktions" and members of the SS in Warsaw and Trawniki; detailed testimony regarding the resettlement "Aktion" in the Trawniki Ghetto[?], summer 1942; description of different violent actions by SS members; comment on the testimony of the witness Neumann; identification of people from photographs; comments regarding the people in the photographs; detailed testimony concerning the operation and liquidation of the Schultz Company in Miela street; description of three transports which arrived in early February, and the liquidation of Buerstenfabrik, the Toebbens Company; testimony regarding his time in Trawniki and the names of workers at the education camp and the labor camp; description of the liquidation of Trawniki, 03 November 1943; trip to Warsaw to see Schultz, 04 November 1943 (pp. 46-103); - Drawing of the Trawniki camp by Georg Alfred Klimanek (p. 104); - Testimony of Helena Hirschberg in Hamburg, 03 April 1963: Identity parade shown to Helena Hirschberg, including Michalsen, Klaustermeiyer and Hantke: Comments by Michalsen regarding Mrs. Ollmann and identification of Helena Lechawska; testimony by Hirschberg regarding the Toebbens Company and its employees; testimony of Hirschberg and Michalsen concerning different situations of the company and its liquidation; testimony by Michalsen regarding the Poniatowa camp; Identity parade involving Hantke: nonrecognition of Helena Hirschberg by Hantke; recognition of Mrs. Ollmann only and comments about her (pp. 105-113); - Testimony of Willy Friedrich Ernst Lehmann in Cologne, 19 April 1963: Born 02 July 1894; appearance before the Court with his wife Margarete Lehmann and their daughter Helga (Lehmann) Damrow who was 12 years old when they were in the Warsaw Ghetto; Lehmann was in the Warsaw Ghetto until 13 April 1942; start of his career in Bernau; work as a master furrier until 1938; deportation to Berlin, 13 April 1942; transfer to Warsaw; life for one or two months with his family in a library outside the ghetto; move to the Warsaw Ghetto; work for the Schultz Company; description of the resettlement "Aktions" in the Warsaw Ghetto; work as the factory manager of the Schultz Company; help from Schultz in obtaining money from the witness' brother; Testimony of Helga (Lehmann) Damrow regarding the Kessel at Miela street "Aktion" in the Warsaw Ghetto, 08 September 1942; description of how the family escaped the deportation; move to the Aryan side of Warsaw, spring 1943; being hidden by a Polish family (pp. 114-130); - Testimony of Fritz Schultz, the owner of the Schultz Company, in Cologne, 20 April 1963: Born 08 October 1892; discussion of various resettlement "Aktions"; comments regarding the testimony of Neumann; identification of people from photographs; comments concerning employees and members of the SS; residence in the Bristol hotel during his time in Warsaw; testimony that the Schultz Company was fenced in during the resettlement "Aktion", September 1942; description of the resettlement "Aktion" involving the Schultz company during which he could rescue some of the employees (pp. 132-142); - Interrogation request from District Judge Dr. Ernst Schertler to Landesgericht Hamburg regarding the resettlement "Aktions" in the Warsaw Ghetto and murder in Trawniki (pp. 143-145); - Testimony of the 54 year old salesman Hugo Ernst Felsch: Work as an interpreter at the Wehrmachtskommandatur (Wehrmacht command) in Tomaszow, from late September 1939; transfer to the SD, 1940; arrival in Lublin, March 1940; work as an interpreter from 1941; responsibility for the censorship of letters from Chelm and later from Kazimierz; transfer to Litzmannstadt, 1943; translation work for the SD until 1945; comments regarding the list of defendants; claim that he never heard of "Aktion" Reinhard or "Aktion" Erntefest (pp. 146-149); - Interrogation request from Dr. Ernst Schertler to Landesgericht Springe containing a request to hear the testimony of the witness Hugo Felsch (pp. 150-151); - Legal assistance appointment from 12 November 1963 (p. 152); - Illegible handwritten document (p. 153); - Postal delivery certificate to Hugo Felsch (p. 154-157); - Letter to the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna from the Austrian Embassy in Poland, 31 October 63, regarding the testimony of Paul Otto Geibel (p. 158); - Letter from Landesgericht Wien to Federal Minister Drachsler containing confirmation of the reading of a file (p. 159); - Document from Landesgericht Wien to the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (pp. 160-163); - Testimony of Paul Otto Geibel in Polish (translation into German, pp. 184-194) (pp. 164-169); - Interrogation request from Dr. Ernst Schertler to see the interrogation file of Stolce Opolskie regarding "Aktion" Reinhard and "Aktion" Erntefest, in Polish and German (pp. 170-177); - List of names of the accused in Polish (pp. 176, 178-179, 181); - List of names of the defendants in criminal proceedings against members of the SSPF Lublin and Warsaw (Pohl and others) (pp. 180, 182-183); - Testimony of Paul Otto Geibel in Strzelce Opolskie, 23 July 1963: Born in Dortmund, 10 June 1898; service as an SS police guard; stationed in Lublin under Globocnik, 01 June-06 July 1941; claim that he does not know anyone on the list of the accused with the exception of Globocnik; testimony regarding an order from Himmler to shoot 10,000 Jews after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which he ignored; shooting of approximately 300 Jews by order of Dr. Hahn (pp. 184-194); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien, 27 March 1963, containing a copy of the testimony of Gerhard Krosin (p. 195); - Testimony of Gerhard Otto Werner Krosin: Testimony regarding Kuschera and Pohl; correction of his testimony from 14 November 1961 (pp. 196-197); - Letter to Dr. Ernst Schertler dated 30 September 1963, containing a document from Lewinski to the World Jewish Congress and an explanation by Lewinski, 03 September 1963 (p. 198); - Letter from Director N. Robinson containing answers regarding the prosecution of war criminals, a chronicle of Litzmannstadt, and a form for witnesses (pp. 199-200); - Testimony of Jerzy Lewinski in Warsaw, 03 September 1963: Testimony that in mid July 1942 there was fear of a horrible "Aktion" in the Warsaw Ghetto but the Judenrat announced on 19 July 1942 that there was no need to be afraid: 6,000 Jews were going to be resettled under the responsibility of the Judenrat; 3,000 Jews were forced to go to the Umschlagplatz; testimony that 6,000 Jews were "resettled" every day to Treblinka, 22 July-06 September 1942; remaining of 60,000 in the ghetto; names of organizations and groups that participated in "Aktion" Reinhard: the SD, the Gestapo, Latvians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and the Waffen SS; discovery of the extermination in Treblinka by the Jews, September 1942; robbery of the remaining Jews in the ghetto by the Nazis; identification of some of the accused from the list (pp. 201-205); - Document from Landesgericht Wien, 04 December 1963, containing fees for translation work (p. 206); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Prosecutor Kloeckner, 29 November 1963, containing copies of various testimonies (p. 207); - Document in reference to the attempted suicide of Fritz Tauschner, born 20 May 1903: Listing of the reasons why Fritz Taschner did not came to the police interrogation on 30 October 1963 (pp. 208-210); - Interrogation of Fritz Tauschner in the hospital (p. 211); - Empty page (p. 212); - Testimony of Theobald Reiter in Dachau, 01 November 1963: Born 30 June 1912; correction of his testimony by stating that he arrived in Lublin from Sachsenhausen, autumn 1940; departure from the camp, 1944; worked at a furniture joinery; comments regarding various defendants; description of the Lipowa camp (pp. 213-219); - Empty page (p. 220); Testimony of Alfred Paul Koziel in Anspach, 31 October 1963: Born 26 June 1904, arrival in Krakow, 1940; basic training at the Waffen SS base in Radom; arrival at the Waffen SS, autumn 1940; service as police director of Lublin in the Lipowa camp; investment with two responsibilities: to serve as commander of the guards and as the purchaser of machines and tools, until spring 1944; return to Krakow; listing of the names of members of the SS in Lipowa; description of the hanging of Jews; statement that he did not witness any other violence against Jews; comments on the different testimonies of witnesses; frequent statement that he did not hear anything of the situations described by the other witnesses; description of the incidents of 03 November 1943 and the liquidation of the Lipowa camp (pp. 221-237); - Letter to the Federal Ministry of Justice in Vienna, 09 December 1963, containing a rogatory letter (pp. 238-239); - Testimony of 52 year old Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel: Work for Battalion 211, 27 August-December1939; service in the Wehrmacht from April 1940; work for the Gemeinnuetzige Stiftung fuer Anstaltspflege (Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care) in Hadamar, Grafenck and Berburg; stationed at the SSPF Lublin and in the Sobibor camp, April 1942-October 1943; transfer to Italy, October 1943; service as a police officer; stationed in the area of Trieste, 1944; identification of people from the list of names; comments regarding the activities of these people in Sobibor (pp. 240-243); Testimony of the 58 year old engineer Dr. Albert Grenzmueller: Work for the Reichsbahn and for the public rail transport service in France; work for the railroads in Nazi occupied Ukraine, September 1941-May 1942; service as State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, May 1942; assertion that he cannot identify any name on the list (pp. 244-245); Testimony of 63 year old Dr. Conrad Gallen: Service as a reserve officer in Radom, Krakow, Spala, Warsaw and Lublin, 01 April 1940-01 May 1944; involvement in counterespionage; visit to the Lublin Ghetto after the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Lublin Ghetto; assertion that he cannot identify any of the names on the list (p. 246); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Prosecutor Dr. Koedding from Landesgericht Dortmund containing an interrogation request and attachments (pp. 247-248); - Interrogation request from District Judge Dr. Ernst Schertler to Landesgericht Dortmund: Dr. Schertler would like to hear the testimony of Dr. Albert Grazenmueller, Dr. Konrad Gallen and Karl Frenzel (pp. 249-250); - Letter to the Landesgericht, 16 December1963, containing charges for the translation work of a trial (p. 251); - Document from Landesgericht Hause, 19 December 1963 (p. 252); - Document from 17 December 1963 with reference to Anton Kreuzner (pp. 253-254); - Letter to the Graz police office in reference to Anton Kreuzner, a member of the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht in the Lipowa camp, and his activities; description of Lipowa Lublin.