Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen, 1963 - 1964

Documentation from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Volume 52; Testimonies by the German perpetrators Fritz Ernst Tauscher, Waltraut Emma Hanelt, Emil Pistor Talbot, Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck and Georg Michalsen regarding the SSPF Lublin, forced labor camps in the General Government, the extermination camp Belzec, the liquidations of ghettos in the General Government, the Warsaw Ghetto, the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deportation of Jews to the extermination camp Treblinka, 1963 - 1964 Interrogations Interrogation of the Oberleutnant Fritz Ernst Tauscher (former member of the security police) regarding his work as a policeman in Dresden until 1940, his work in the euthanasia institute Sonnenstein (registrar, his knowledge of the murders committed there), his work with the Todt organization (transferring wounded soldiers from the battlefields to field hospitals) from January to May 1942, his transfer to the SSPF in Lublin in June 1942 where he received an SS uniform and was awarded the tile of an SS-Untersturmführer, his transfer to Trawniki at the same time where he taught German auxiliary policemen, SS-Hauptsturmführer Streibel who was in charge of courses for Ukrainian auxiliary forces, his transfer to a forced labor camp in Dohorucza (Dorohucza) where he supervised about 100 Jews, information on the camp, his transfer to the extermination camp Belzec at the end of October 1942 where he exhumed and burned the corpses of the murdered until March 1943, two or three deportations of Jews to the extermination camp Belzec and their murder in October 1942, the transfer of the camp commander Hering after the end of the burning of corpses in Belzec in March 1943 after which Tauscher was in charge of the process concerning the dissolution of the extermination camp (commander of the camp, 300 to 350 Jewish workers were involved and whom Hering promised to keep alive, in the end they were murdered in the extermination camp Sobibor which Fritz Tauscher did not know before the interrogation), denying of having been the vice-commander of the extermination camp Belzec, leaving Belzec in the end of March or the beginning of April 1943, his transfer to the forced labor camp (Jews and Polish POWs) in Budzyn where he was the camp commander until October 1943 when he was transferred to Triest, being convicted of having killed people in Budzyn, never having committed actions that resulted in the murder of a Jew in the extermination camp Belzec; his comments on a sketch of the extermination camp Belzec, the Jewish physician working in the forced labor camp Budzyn Schubert, the Jewish commander of the camp Stockmann, denying all allegations to have murdered Jews in the forced labor camp and other allegations made by witnesses, his knowledge of the systematic murder of Jews, not having known the extermination camp Majdanek (Lublin), his suicide attempt a day before he should have been interrogated in Nuremberg, contradictions with statements during previous interrogations, admitting to have carried a whip with him in the extermination camp Belzec but never having used it; about 1000 Jews being detained in the forced labor camp Budzyn, denying all allegations made by witnesses, denying to have known about mass graves of Jews who were shot within or a bit outside of the forced labor camp Budzyn, his work at the office of Globocnik in Triest where he was fighting black marketing, not having had to do anything with Jews during his time in Triest (Munich, Hamburg 18/12/1963 21/01/1964 24/01/1964) pp.6-30 Testimony of Waltraut Emma Hanelt regarding her former husband Gustav Hanelt, her move to Lublin in July 1941 after her wedding with Gustav Hanelt where she stayed until March 1944, sometimes volunteering at the Red Cross in Lublin, Gustav Hanelt’s task to help organizing SS and police headquarters, Gustav Hanelt becoming the head of the planning and research authority for accommodation in the East (Planungs- und Forschungsstelle für Ostunterkünfte) and the SS-staff house (SS-Mannschaftshaus), information on people working for the planning and research authority and the SS-staff house, her husband probably having worked in Bialystok for a while with Michalsen, the dissolution of the Lublin ghetto, her knowledge about the mass murder of Jews from rumors, Gustav Hanelt’s connections to Globocnik (Kiel 29/01/1964) pp.31-38 Interrogation of Emil Pistor Talbot regarding his position as the head of the troop economy storage rooms (Truppenwirtschaftslager) in Lublin from January 1943 to January 1944, information on people having worked there, the Truppenwirtschaftslager distributing food to forced labor camps where Jews were detained, visiting the forced labor camps Trawniki and Poniatowa on 03 and 04/11/1943 after the shooting of Jews there, the Truppenwirtschaftslager employing 20-24 Jews as forced laborers who commuted at the beginning every day from the concentration camp Majdanek to Lublin and back, the transfer of those Jews to a barrack near the Truppenwirtschaftslager, himself preventing these Jews from being shot in the concentration camp Majdanek for some time, his efforts to leave the Truppenwirtschaftslager, his transfer to the 5th mountain corps in Bosnia, Streibel informing him about the shootings of Jews in Trawniki (Cologne 24/02/1964) pp.40-51 Interrogation of Sturmbannführer Josef Opperbeck regarding his transfer from the Wehrmacht to the Waffen-SS in 1940, his work in the SS headquarters for economy and administration in Berlin concerning armor, supervising the Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe (DAW), whose manager was SS-Oberführer Beier who was superior to (Oswald) Pohl, having branches in Dachau, Buchenwald, Oranienburg, Auschwitz, Lublin, Lemberg and other place, not having heard about the shooting of Jews in the DAW camp in Lublin (Bonn 25/02/1964) pp.52-57 Interrogation of the accused Georg Michalsen (until 1940 Michalczyk) regarding his work at the SS as a Sturmführer, information on people working for the SSPF Lublin, his transfer from Upper Silesia via Tschenstochau to Petrikau (teaching people to become members of the Selbstschutz (self-defense) in and around Petrikau, getting appointed to leading positions within the Selbstschutz), himself falling under the circle of influence of the SSPF in Lublin at the end of August 1940, his transfer via the forced labor camp Belzec to the forced labor camp Plazow (200-300 Jews, he worked there for 2-3 weeks), getting transferred to the office of Höfle where he dealt with the resettlement of ‘Volksdeutsche’, his transfer to Riga 2-3 weeks after the attack of Russia by Nazi-Germany where he set up and headed the SSPF branch of the SSPF (“Rußland-Nord”), denying to have been the head of the Selbstschutz in Lublin from mid-1940 to mid-1941, returning to Lublin in May 1942, deportations of Jews arriving nearly on a daily in Lublin at that time, never being present during the arrivals of Jews there, Höfle being responsible for the deportations, the confiscation of the Jews’ property in Lublin, rumors he heard of the Jews being sent further to the POW camp Lublin which might have been (or later been turned into) the concentration camp Majdanek, being transferred to the authority for the strengthening of Germandom headed by von Mohrenschildt after the end of the “Sommeraktion” (see also p.160), denying allegations made by other accused and witnesses, denying to have had anything to do with the dissolution of ghettos or forced labor camps and the deportation of the Jews detained there to the extermination camp Sobibor before the “Warschauer Einsatz” (action in Warsaw), denying to have ever seen a gas van, to have been in Minsk or Kiev for his work; the confiscation and utilization of property owned by Jews who have been murdered in extermination camps (p.72), his involvement in the “Warschauer Einsatz” (action in Warsaw, deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp), information of people involved in the “Warschauer Einsatz” (SSPF von Sammern of Warsaw being in charge of it, giving him and others orders, supplying them with maps of the ghetto), orders to shoot Jew if they are seen in restricted areas of the ghettos; the German order police, later staff from the Trawniki accompanying the deportations from Warsaw; members of the Warsaw Waffen-SS not being involved in the “Warschauer Einsatz”, the security police being involved in the “Warschauer Einsatz”, an order to shoot every Jew who seems to be attempting to escape, contacts with the Warsaw Judenrat; the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (“Stroop-Aktion”), his tasks during the suppression of the Uprising (deportation of Jews from the Umschlagplatz), the Jewish order police escorting Jews to the Umschlagplatz at the beginning, afterwards Latvian and Ukrainian forces who dragged Jews out of their houses and brought them to the Umschlagplatz, the companies operating on the premises of the Warsaw ghetto and being involved in the deportation of Jews, denying to have witnessed Jews being shot for trying to avoid being dragged to the Umschlagplatz in spite of seeing corpses of Jews who were shot on the streets, Jews mostly obeying the occupant forces and not escaping the deportation or resisting the occupant forces, vehicles carrying old and sick people to the Umschlagplatz, denying that old and sick people were shot immediately, working at the Umschlagplatz and sometimes as the head of a troop conducting street and house searches for Jews, the process of dragging Jews to the Umschlagplatz and loading them unto the wagons, information on his colleagues (Meierhofer, Groß, Lehnert, Mohwinkel, Klein, Lerch and Ulbrich as well as (pp.147-154) Oberhauser, Farkas, Höfles, Seichter, Slany, Schmidt, Gottschall, Marianne Ollmann and Franz); Ukrainian and Latvian forces independently deporting Jews with valid work documents; the “Kessel an der Mila” (Jews had to assemble in Mila street where a selection of workers by Groß and Hantke took place, September 6th-8th 1942), escape attempts by Jews, 30.000-35.000 Jews who were allowed to stay in the ghetto after the “Kessel an der Mila”; the deportation of Jewish order policemen, Globocnik receiving reports on the “Sommeraktion”, the place Malkinia which was said to have been the destination of all deportations from Warsaw, his estimate of 180.000 people who were deported from Warsaw, unlawful enrichment of Nazis and their collaborators, hitting Jews with a whip or with his hand, only witnessing once an execution of a Jew in the Umschlagplatz, the process of deportation, finding out that the Jews deported from Warsaw are going to be murdered in the extermination camp Treblinka two weeks after the beginning of the deportations (pp.131-132); his efforts to get away from his workplace after the end of the “Sommeraktion”, his transfer to the office of the Reichskommissar and his new tasks concerning the relocation of companies and factories from the Warsaw ghetto elsewhere (Poniatowa, Trawniki) (see also p.161); Jews of the Warsaw ghetto tending to prefer their deportation to other work ghettos and being afraid of the Jewish underground movement in the Warsaw ghetto, resistance in the ghetto (pp.135-146, pp.171-173), the efforts of the Nazi authorities to identify and deport the members of the Jewish underground movement in the Warsaw ghetto to the extermination camp Treblinka, plans and meetings concerning the final liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto, his tasks during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (guarding factories), leaving Warsaw on April 21st, members of the SSPF in Lublin who were involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; being involved in the liquidation of ghettos near Warsaw in summer 1942, denying to have had a relationship with a Jew, the shooting of Jews living in remote areas or their deportation between summer 1942, his participation in the deportation of Jews living in remote areas (Piaski, Wlodawa, Miendzyrzec) to the extermination camp Treblinka or the Trawniki camp, witnessing a Ukrainian collaborator murdering a Jews in Wlodawa, being involved in the ‘Einsatz Reinhard” (Aktion Reinhard), realizing only over the course of the “Sommeraktion” in the Warsaw ghetto that the resettlement of Jews equals their extermination, never having entered the extermination camp Treblinka, the liquidation of the ghetto of Bialystok (pp.173-176), his transfer to Trieste in August 1943 as well as remarks (Hamburg 07/01/1964-12/03/1964) pp.58-185 (Part I: pp. 58-112, Part II: pp.147-159, Part III pp.113-146, Part IV pp.160-185) List of Jewish victims Schubert p.18 Mosbach p.18 Stockmann p.18 Ferster/Förster p.28 Gelbard p.28 Weißfisch p.44 Lichtenbaum p.88 p.158 Eisenstadt p.124 Korczycki p.124 Klimanek p.125 p.126 Reicher p.125 Nowogrodzki p.143 Hirschberg p.144 Kohn p.149 Heller p.149 Helena Hirschberg p.152 Chana Wimer p.154 Isak Gielczynski p.173 Judelbaum p.174 CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES AND FORMAL DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS p.5