Examination of witnesses regarding the activity of the Gestapo "Jewish department" - RSHA IV-B-4; Testimonies regarding Auschwitz from previous West German trials, 1952 - 1967
Note: This file includes material of the proceedings against other Nazi criminals in the years since 1952, especially in the periode since 1959ff, as well as the proceedings against "former employees of RSHA IV-B-4 ("Judenreferat") for assistance of murder", 1967. -- The central question of the pre-trial hearings of former RSHA IV-B-4-employees concerned the extent of knowledge on the systematic murder of the Jews.
The file includes...
Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Testimonies by Jewish survivors and German perpetrators from the Gestapo and the RSHA, 1953 - 1970
The file contains in detail:
- Interrogation of Karl Jalowitz (date of birth: 17.09.1900 in Kletzko) on 24.02.1970. Jalowitz was arrested in 1943 and brought to the camp Levetzowstrasse, later he was deported to Monowitz. In 1945 he was transferred to Gleiwitz, Bissingen-Wuerttemberg and Stalldorf (p 1-6).
- Interrogation of Arthur Gottheiner (date of birth: 10.05.1920 in Berlin) on 25.02.1970. Gottheiner was
deported from Berlin to...