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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 58; Collection of reports regarding "Aktion" Reinhard, protocols from the Lublin Judenrat (Jewish Council)

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 58; Collection of reports regarding "Aktion" Reinhard, protocols from the Lublin Judenrat (Jewish Council) - Statistical report entitled "Die Endlösung der europäischen Judenfrage" (The Final Solution of the European Jewish Question), undated and incomplete, possibly a draft for the report that appears on pp. 21-37 (pp. 9-15); - Letter from the Reichsführer SS regarding the statistical report "Die Endlösung der europäischen Judenfrag" (p. 20); - Different and longer version of the report "Die Endlösung der Europäischen Judenfrage (see pp. 9-15); it would appear that some pages have been mixed up, page 2 of the report (p. 23 in the file) seems to continue where p. 1 of the first copy (p. 9 in the file) ends (page 21 - 37); - Report "Die Bearbeitung der jüdischen Probleme durch die Sicherheitspolizei und den SD bis 1939" (The Processing of Jewish Problems by the Security Police and the SD) by Dieter Wisliceny, Bratislava, 18 November 1946 (pp. 46-67); - Records kept by Martin Luther regarding policies concerning Jews and the Final Solution, dated 21 August 1942; Luther seems to be working for the foreign service, since most of the report covers foreign affairs related to the treatment of Jews (pp. 69-78); - Copy of a letter from Michalsen, requesting straw and blankets (pp. 79); - Testimony of Friedrich Kaiser, a Schutzpolizei Major, who was in charge of automobiles at the Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei (BdO- Commander of the Ordnungspolizei) in Lublin: Interrogation regarding his cooperation with other departments, his knowledge of "Aktions" against Jews and his knowledge of concentration camps (pp. 81-85); - Testimony of Jakob Wurzelman, an inmate of the Warsaw Ghetto until its liquidation, April 1943, and then an inmate in the Pawiak Prison: Testimony regarding his work in the ghetto and his time in the Pawiak prison; assertion that Allers held selections in his office in Pawiak, commanded shootings and shot people on several occasions, including a small child (pp. 89-96); - Report entitled "Die Operation Reinhard - Die Massenvernichtung der Juden" (Operation Reinhard-The Mass Extermination of Jews), written after the war (pp. 98-141); - Report entitled "Die Ausrottung der Juden im entscheidenden Zeitabschnitt der Schlacht von Stalingrad - Die wirtschaflichen Aufgaben der "Aktion Reinhard" (The Extermination of Jews in the Decisive Time of the Battle of Stalingrad - The Economic Function of "Aktion" Reinhard), written after the war (pp. 142-203); - Chapter from "Operation Reinhard, the Mass Extermination of the Jewish Population" (pp. 204-237); - Protocols of the Lublin Judenrat (in Polish) (pp. 238-280); - Protocols of the Lublin Judenrat (translation into German) (pp. 281-357).
item Id
7221539
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
116
Language
Polish
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
14/6/1942
Date of Creation - latest
17/03/1965
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
357
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 58
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