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Trial by the district courts in Klagenfurt, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz against members of the HSSPF Lublin, Volume 60: Criminal proceedings against Helmut Pohl, testimonies, mostly by perpetrators, 1963-1965

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 60; Criminal Proceedings against Helmut Pohl, testimonies, mostly by perpetrators, 1963-1965 - Testimony of Gustav Hanelt, head of the Ostunterkünfte (Research Department for Accommodation in the East) in Lublin, also responsible for establishing a Mannschaftshaus (SS crew house) in Lublin, 1940-1943: Devising of plans to establish SS und Polizeistützpunkte (SS and police bases) in former Polish farms, while in Lublin; naming of some employees of the research department; interrogation regarding Lerch, Michalsen, Globocnik, Höfle, Wippern, Maubach, Streibel and Müller; presence of Michalsen during the interrogation, from p. 241; exit of Michalsen on p. 245; presence of Streibel at the interrogation from p. 245 (see Sapir entry 7217755, pp. 213- 249) (pp. 4- 40); - Additional Testimony of Gustav Hanelt: Interrogation regarding Michalsen and the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto (pp. 41-47); - Testimony of Georg Michalsen, instructor of German Selbstschutz (Self-protection- a paramilitary organization created by ethnic Germans in Central and Eastern Europe) troops guarding a camp in Plaszow, until1940; a member in Herman Hoefle's staff dealing with the resettlement of Germans in the Warthegau in Oppeln, 1940-1941: Testimony regarding general procedures in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto (pp. 48-176); - Additional Testimony of Georg Michalsen: Interrogation regarding factories in the Bialystok Ghetto, the liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto and resistance to the liquidation, as part of the preliminary investigation against Dr. Zimmermann (pp. 177-188); - Testimony of Paul Pacanowski, a conscript in the Polish Army, an inmate in a camp near Hoyerswerda until 1940, afterwards employed at a business in Wolbrom, while living in the Wolbrom Ghetto; Evacuation of the ghetto, 6 September 1942; murder of his father; deportation of the witness to Rzeszow (pp. 189-192); - Testimony of Werner Wehrheim, squadron commander of Polizeireiterzug des Polizeiregiments 25 (Police Cavalry Regiment 25) in Lublin (pp. 195-205); - Testimony of Roman Fischer, a POW in the Lipowa Camp: Testimony regarding the SS personnel in the Lipowa camp: Klein, Riedel, Hantke, Hausberg, Dornberger, Groß, Lissy, Eisenach and others (pp. 206-222); - Testimony of Peter Gurmann, special officer for forestry: It would seem that Peter Gurmann is not the person the prosecution was looking for, as he is also questioned regarding other persons with the name Gurmann (pp. 227-229); - Testimony of Dr. Dominik Romani, regimental physician for 2. Kavallerie SS-Reiter Regiment (2nd Cavalry SS Cavalry Regiment) deployed in Lublin and the Soviet Union: Interrogation regarding the extermination of Jews (pp. 232-236); -Testimony of Herbert Singer, who worked at the SS Mannschaftshaus as a civil engineer: Interrogation regarding the persecution of Jews; interrogation regarding his comrades (pp. 237-242); - Testimony of Thomas Petritz, a member of the SS Staff in Buchenwald, 1941; service in the SS Standortverwaltung Lublin, 1942-1943 (pp. 244-249); - Report regarding the whereabouts of Dr. Josef Sommer, stating that he died in battle near Warsaw; the whereabouts of Albert Susitti, stating he died in battle in Italy; and the whereabouts of Leopold Veit, stating he died in Graz, Austria, 1950 (pp. 250-252).
item Id
7221553
Type of material
Legal documentation
Names of perpetrators
Official documentation
File Number
118
Language
German
Record Group
TR.21 - Trial documentation - Austria
Date of Creation - earliest
08/04/1963
Date of Creation - latest
29/07/1965
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
252
Archival Signature
25VR 3123/71 (former 27cVR 852/62), Band 60
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"