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 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 - Yad Vashem file card (p. 1); - Landesgericht Klagenfurt file card: (p. 2); - File summary: Testimonies of Dr. Sturm, Gartenkraut, Dr. Rocdonski, Podgorski, Zyskin, Tetzel and Backermann; - Rogatory letter to Landesgericht Wiesbaden; message, notes and judgment of Landesgericht Wiesbaden (p. 3); - Letter from Landesgericht Wien, 30 April 1969 regarding an interpreter during the criminal proceedings against Pohl and others (p. 4); - Letter from Landesgericht Wien to the prosecution in Hamburg regarding the defendant N. Dornberger, 30 April 1969 (p. 5); - Letter from Landesgericht Wien to Landesgericht Linz regarding the defendant N. Groemmer, 30 April 1969 (p. 6); - Charges for certified translations regarding the criminal proceedings against Pohl and others (p. 7); - Notice from Landesgericht Klagenfurt (p. 8); - Letter to Landesgericht Wien from Landesgericht Hamburg, 16 May 1969 (p. 9); - Letter to the Vienna court, 21 April 1969 regarding records of interrogations in criminal proceedings against members of the SS police guard in Lublin (p. 12); - Testimony of the physician Dr. Hermann Paul Sickel: Return to Lublin, summer 1942; work with pharmacists in the production of eau-de-cologne; testimony regarding the pharmaceutical company and the way the Jews sorted the medications; responsibility of Schnur for the Jews working for the pharmaceutical companies; assertion that he went to Majdanek to bring 12 Jews back to the company; denial that he ever gave medicine to Jews and he was only responsible for the fight against spotted fever; denial of any accusation regarding the mistreatment of Jews; testimony regarding Maubach and HJ guard Chichotzki; departure from Lublin, January 1944 (pp.13-16); - Testimony of Max Runhof, 29 May 1968: Service as an adjutant at SSPF Lublin; arrival in Lublin, April 1942; service as the personal adjutant of Globocnik; responsible for troop management; testimony regarding Globocnik and his work, character and plans; the witness was a confidant of Globocnik; denial that he was ever in extermination camps or in the Warsaw Ghetto with Globocnik; testimony regarding the organization of the Fahrbereitschaft (car service) and the administration of the Reichskommissariat fuer die Festigung deutschen Volkstums (Reich Commission for the Consolidation of German Nationality); denial that he confirmed the resettlement of 500 Jews and that he ever mistreated a Jew; a member of the Waffen SS; taken captive as a prisoner of war; denial that he ever heard about an "Aktion" in Josefow, April 1940 or in Radawiec, June 1940 (pp. 17-23); - Testimony of Erika Fischer, 20 May 1968: Testimony regarding the shooting of Jews in Lublin under Sporrenberg and to the party in celebration of the shootings (pp. 24-25); - Testimony of Friedrich August Saurmann: Arrival in Lublin, October 1939 as a town major; service in Lublin until April 1942; transfer to serve as town major in Biala-Podlaska, May 1943; suspension because he was considered politically unreliable; statement that he tried to hide Jews and he was warned by his superior officers regarding his behavior; denial of knowledge regarding "Aktions" in Josefow and Radawiec in 1940; testimony regarding various incidents in Lublin, Globocnik's work, people who worked with Globocnik, such as Hoefle, Maubach, Wippern and Nemec; comments regarding the Lublin Ghetto, March-April 1942; testimony regarding the administration of the Lublin Ghetto, his work as town major and the work of Chichotzki (pp. 26-34); - Testimony of Willi Natke, 14 June 1968: Arrival in Lublin, early 1942; service as a police guard and running the casino in Lublin, March-June 1942; work for Globocnik until his transfer to Trieste; testimony regarding various members of the SSPF Lublin and the Jewish Question; knowledge of the term "Aktion" Reinhard; testimony regarding Globocnik's drinking problem; assertion that Globocnik was a bad person; testimony that Sporrenberg was never violent against Jews; testimony regarding events of "Aktion" Erntefest" and the participants in this "Aktion"; assertion that everyone knew about the extermination of Jews; testimony that he cannot remember that Globocnik had a nervous breakdown (pp. 35-41); - Testimony of Fritz Dorl, 20 September 1968: Service in the Waffen SS from 1940, arrival in Lublin, March-April 1941; assigned to sort the money left behind by deported Jews; work in a warehouse in Chopin street where he sorted the clothes of deported or shot Jews from summer 1942; knowledge of the term "Aktion" Reinhard"; testimony regarding the work of Jews in the Materiallager (Material warehouse) where he worked for four or five months; transfer to Lemberg; testimony regarding various SS officers he knew from Lublin (pp. 42-47); - Testimony of Erich Franz Lange: Arrival in Lublin, January 1943; assigned to participate in the disbanding of the SS Standortkommandatur; testimony regarding members of the SSPF in Lublin; sketches the area around the Standortkommandatur and describes it in detail; admission that he was surprised by the "Aktion", on 03 November 1943; description of the day of the "Aktion"; testimony regarding the condition of the Jews in Lublin; denial of involvement in the extermination of Jews (pp. 48-58); - Testimony of Ernst Bosing, 02 October 1969: Testimony regarding the market garden in Zamosc and the Jews who worked there; admission that he did not expect that all the Jews would be killed; participation in the gathering of Jews; participation in the driving of Jews to Majdanek; denial of knowledge regarding the gassing of Jews; testimony regarding a shooting in Majdanek; in Zamosc, September 1941-September 1943 (pp. 59-64); - Testimony of Georg Wippern, 04 October 1968: Testimony regarding an appointment concerning the registration of Jewish property; admission that he may have signed this appointment; director of the Standortverwaltung in Personalunion (site management in a personal union); knowledge of the extermination of Jews from summer 1942; denial of being in Belzec or in any other camp before summer 1942; testimony that he saw the corpses of Jews who were force marched from Lublin to Majdanek on the street, denial that he was in Majdanek, 03 November 1943; denial of participation in the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto; denial that he shot his tailor; testimony regarding members of the SSPF Lublin; denial that he urged that more Jews be sent to the extermination camp; claim that "Aktion" Reinhard" means "Verwertungsaktion" (Recovery action) (pp. 65-75); - Testimony of Kurt Karl Vollmer, an SS member from 1935, 14 November 1968: Service as an SS Obersturmfuehrer and dentist in Lublin; denial that he gave the command "Feuer frei" (Fire!) to shoot Jews from the roof of the command building during an "Aktion"; testimony regarding a march of Jews from the Lipowa camp to Majdanek; testimony regarding the Standortkommandatur Lublin and the Jews who worked there; comments regarding SS guards from SSPF Lublin; departure from Lublin, March 1944 (pp. 76-83); - Letter from Landesgericht Wiesbaden to Landesgericht Klagenfurt 25 October 1973 in reference to the protocols of the testimonies of Dr. Sturm, Gartenkraut, Dr. Radomski, Podgorski, Zyskind, Tetzel and Hackman (pp. 84-85); - Landesgericht Wiesbaden file card (p. 86); - Testimony of Dr. Sturm: Claim that he cannot remember any details regarding the resettlement of Jews from Lublin to Majdan Tatarski; testimony regarding 20 April 1942 and his visit to Majdan Tatarski; comments regarding the Ausweiskontrolle (ID checks) in Majdan Tatarski, and the time when he shot a Jewish girl in the leg; denial of knowledge of a shooting in Krepice; testimony regarding the unrest of the Jews during the "Aktion", 20 April 1942; denial of any deportations following this "Aktion"; claim that he was informed of executions in November 1942 and that the fate of the Jews was partly known; denial of his participation in the liquidation of the Restghetto Majdan Tatarski and the shooting of the sick and children in Lublin; further denial that he participated in the shooting in Krepice; claim that he tried to get away from Lublin; denial that he shot Klawir, Dr. Alten, Grajer or Goldfarb; testimony regarding his relations with Worthoff during and after the war (pp. 87-106); - Testimony of 70 year old Rachmil Gartenkraut, residing in Frankfurt am Main, 05 April 1971: Born in Lublin, 04 Sept 1900; an inmate of Buchenwald; liberation; emigration to Brazil to his brother; life in a barrack in the Lublin Ghetto until 1942; memory of various SS officers from Lublin; testimony regarding the resettlement "Aktions" and Ausweiskontrollen; comments regarding Dr. Sturm and Worthoff; deportation of his wife and children to Majdanek, because their identity cards were not stamped "J-Ausweis"; work as a gardener in Majdan Tatarski; testimony that Goldfarb, Dr. Alten and Grajer worked closely with the Germans; start of the liquidations in Majdan Tatarski, autumn 1942; in hiding at the home of a Polish family some of the time; selection for work in the Budzyn camp; April-June 1944; transfer to Majdanek; forced march from Majdanek to Krasnik; transfer to Auschwitz, Gleiwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald; death of his son shortly after the liberation in Buchenwald; deaths of his wife and their three other children in Majdanek; testimony regarding the Ausweiskontrollen, the selections, the resettlement "Aktions", the shooting of the children of the children's home, the shooting of sick people and the shooting of Klawir; description of the Majdan Tatarski Ghetto and the "Aktion" there, April-May 1942; statement that Dr. Sturm participated in the "Aktions"; testimony regarding the Judenrat and the Jewish police; description of the shooting in Krepiece (pp. 107-126); - Testimony of Edward Podgorski, 15 June 1971: Born in Lublin, 24 January 1899; work as a manufacturer; former name: Naftali Fiszman; owner of a textile store until 1939; escape from Lublin to Warsaw with the name Podgorski; liberation in Warsaw with his sister by the Red Army; testimony regarding time in the Warsaw Ghetto working as a ambulance attendant; testimony regarding the members of the Judenrat, the Juedischer Ordnungsdienst (Jewish Police) and members of the SS in Lublin; deportation to the ghetto, 1942; one of the first resettlement "Aktions", 15 March 1942; testimony regarding this "Aktion" and the selections; deportation of his wife and children to Majdan Tatarski and Majdanek; shooting of his wife and children in the forest of Krepiec three days later; work in the Lublin hospital; testimony regarding the shooting of the patients in the hospital and the children in the children's home; witness to the shooting of Jews by Kalich during the liquidation; knowledge of Belzec; knowledge of the murders in Belzec; an inmate in the Lipowa camp until his escape to Warsaw on the day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; also an inmate in the Majdan Tatarski camp; testimony regarding shootings in Majdan Tatarski shortly before the liquidation; testimony regarding the liquidation in Majdan Tatarski (pp. 127-141); - Testimony of Dobrowolski, 22 June 1971: An inmate in the Majdan Tatarski Ghetto; testimony to the Ausweiskontrollen and selections in the ghetto; wearing of a Desinfektionsgruppe cap for his protection in Majdan Tatarski; escape to Majdanek [?]; testimony regarding the shooting of the Jew Sturm by Dr. Sturm and the shooting of Klawir and the assumption that it was Dr. Sturm who shot him; testimony regarding Dr. Sturm and Worthoff and their role during the selections; description of the start of the liquidations (pp. 142-149); - Testimony of Dr. Adam Radomski: Born in Lublin, 07 April 1907; deportation to the Lublin Ghetto, September 1939; escape from the ghetto, 09 November 1942; escape to Warsaw; head of a military court in Posen after the war; search for Dr. Sturm, Worthoff, Lell, Hintze and Kalich; residence in Warsaw until 1949; emigration to the United States; testimony regarding the conditions in the Lublin Ghetto; comments regarding Worthoff, Sturm and Grajer; serving as a member of the Desinfektorenkolonne with false documents; testimony regarding the shooting of members of the Judenrat, and the death of Tennenbaum, spring 1942; testimony regarding SS officers he knew from Lublin and resettlement "Aktions" in the Lublin Ghetto before the liquidation; taking away of his "J-Ausweis" card from him by Dr. Sturm; testimony regarding the liquidation of the hospital and the children's home; statement that he knew that the Jews were being killed systematically; description of his time in Majdan Tatarski and Piaski; comments regarding the shooting in Krepice and the liquidation of Majdan Tatarski; testimony regarding escape from Majdan Tatarski with his wife; joining an underground movement; testimony regarding the activities of Worthoff and Dr. Sturm and the fate of Dr. Alten, Goldfarb, Grajer and Klawir (pp. 149-165); - Testimony of Malka Zyskind, 06 December 1971: Born in Lublin, 24 November 1916; an inmate in Majdan Tatarski; escape, 12 November 1942; work at the Tankwache in Bronowice and in a market garden while her husband was in the Lipowa camp; deportation to the ghetto, 1941; testimony regarding members of the Judenrat and SS officers she knew from Lublin and Majdan Tatarski; conditions in the ghetto; detailed descriptions of resettlement "Aktions" operations and the liquidation; shooting of 14 people with whom she and some other people tried to hide from an 'Aktion"; survival of the witness and another women because they had "J-Ausweis" identity cards; testimony regarding the shooting of the sick and the elderly, "Aktions" in the synagogue and in the hospital, and the shooting in the children's home; statement that Dr. Sturm gave the orders to shoot; knowledge regarding the fate of the Jews and the extermination camps in Belzec, Sobibor and Trawniki; description of the physical appearance of Sturm, Worthoff and Kalich; previous deportation of her eight month old child before her arrival at Majdan Tatarski; testimony regarding the shooting of the Jew Sturm; escape from Majdan Tatarski and Piaski; return to Majdan Tatarski; in hiding there until the liberation of the camp; claim that Grajer rescued a girl during an "Aktion" and he later married her; witness to the "Kollege, steh'auf!" "Aktion" when the father of the Jew Sturm was also shot; testimony regarding her deportation to Piaski and her escape; hearsay evidence of the shooting of Dr. Alten, Grajer and Goldfarb (pp. 166-187); - Testimony of Willy Natke: Arrival in Lublin, in spring 1942; work for Globocnik until 1943; transfer of Globocnik to Italy; assignment to work for Sporrenberg; travel to Norway with Sporrenberg, 02 December 1944; capture by the British Army; testimony regarding members of the SSPF Lublin; knowledge of shootings from the time of Globocnik and Sporrenberg; knowledge of Majdanek and Treblinka; testimony regarding Wirth and Hoefle and their jobs; knowledge of the term "Aktion" Erntefest (pp. 188-192); - Testimony of Hermann Tetzel: Service as an SS Unterscharfuehrer; arrival at the Waffen SS in Buchenwald, 02 August 1939; transfer to Krakow as Stabsfuehrer (staff leader), 01 June1940; transfer to Warsaw; responsibility for the resettlement of ethnic Germans to Warthegau; service as a guard in the Lublin camp; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Riga; taken captive as a POW by the Red Army until May 1948; sentenced to 18 months in prison because he was a member of the SS; knowledge of the shooting in the forest near Lublin, spring 1942; participation in the construction and establishment of Majdanek (pp.193-196); - Testimony of Vinzenz Pauluszewski, 26 June 1972: Comments regarding, and translation of, various Judenrat protocols (pp. 197-198); - Testimony of Hermann Hackmann: Arrival at the Training Section of the SS Totenkopfverband (Death's Head Units), 1934-1935; participation in building Buchenwald; arrival at Buchenwald, 1937; work later at Waffen SS Headquarters; arrival in Lublin to set up a Waffen SS POW camp, July-August 1941; transfer to the front, spring 1942; taken captive by the US Army as a POW; sentenced to 10 years in prison; a member of the SS from 1933; deployment to Lublin due to his experience in building camps; testimony regarding the liquidation of the Lublin Ghetto; knowledge regarding shootings in Lublin, 20 April 1942 (pp. 199-206); - Rogatory letter to Landesgericht Klagenfurt from Landesgericht Wiesbaden, 09 January 1974 (p. 206); - Letter from Landesgericht Klagenfurt to Landesgericht Wiesbaden, 09 January 1974 regarding the criminal proceedings against Dr. Harry Sturm and Ernst Lerch (pp. 207-208); - Letter from Landesgericht Wiesbaden to Landesgericht Klagenfurt, 15 January 1974 regarding the criminal proceeding against Ernst Lerch, his participation in the shooting in the forest of Krepiec and a copy of the trial against him (pp. 209-211); - Letter from Landesgericht Klagenfurt to Landesgericht Wiesbaden, 06 May 1974 regarding the criminal proceeding against Ernst Lerch and a copy of the trial against him (p. 212); - Letter from Landesgericht Wiesbaden to Landesgericht Klagenfurt, 22 May 1974 regarding the criminal proceedings against Ernst Lerch and Hoffmann and copies of these trials. (p.213) - Letter from Landesgericht Wiesbaden to Landesgericht Klagenfurt, 10 July 1974 regarding the criminal proceedings against Ernst Lerch, Hoffmann and Bruno Meiert (p. 214).