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 50: Correspondence between Landesgericht Wien and other regional courts regarding members of the HSSPF Lublin
- Yad Vashem file card (p. 1);
- Landesgericht Klagenfurt file card (p. 2);
- Letter from Prosecutor Beier to District...
File Number : 108
Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators
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: Trial against Hermann Hoefle; Testimonies by German perpetrators and a Jewish survivor regarding the Belzec extermination camp, 1961
An abridged summary of File No. 25 VR 3123/71 (former 27c VR 852/62)
Testimony of Heinrich Karl Johann Gley:
Posted to Belzec, 1943;...
File Number : 74
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Legal Documentation, Names of Perpetrators
Explanation of the decree from July 11th 1942 to tranfer Jews from France, Belgium and the Netherlands and the technical procedure from July 9th 1942. Deportation of the Jews from the Netherlands to Theresienstadt
Telegram by the head of the BdS in the Netherlands Wiljelm Harster to Adolf Eichmann informing him about the decision by the German Commissioner-General in the Netherlands Fritz Schmidt exempting from deportation Dutch Jews converted to Christianity before the 9/5/1940. The decision applied to 694 former Jewish Catholics and 1,061 Protestants, 20/7/1942 (p.6);
Telegrams by the Duesseldorf...
Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 14 October 1949
Important note: The following statement is from the point of view of the Defense.
Charge 4: The inhumane treatment of POWs:
Number of POWs; There were a total of 430,000 POWs between 09/1941 until von Manstein left the Crimea in July 1942 (p. 4);
History of the campaign (pp. 4-5);
Food situation (pp. 5-9);
Handing over of POWs to the SD: Persons in the hands of the SD were not candidates for a death sentence; Employment of persons, even Jews, by the SD;...
File Number : 27
Type of Material : Indictment, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation
Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 07 October 1949
Continuation of the opening speech by the Defense of von Manstein;
Important note: it is not from the point of view of the Defense.
Overview of the four aspects in relation to the Crimea:
1. Treatment of POWs in the Crimea
2. Guerilla warfare
3. Propaganda: Reichenau Order
4. Activities of the Einsatzgruppen
Included in this document are aspects no. 3 and 4:
3. Propaganda: Reichenau Order (pp. 05-12)
4. Activities of the Einsatzgruppen (pp....
File Number : 24
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators
Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 08 September 1949
Landsberg Commission, continued:
a) Cross-examination of witness Schubert (continued): (pp. 4-31)
Discussion regarding an exchange between the witnesses concerning the ongoing lawsuit;
Talk between the witnesses in the courtyard (pp. 7-8);
Discussion regarding an order by Commander-in-Chief or The Army (pp. 11-12);
Request for all executions by the army at or near Simferopol;
Execution places are outside the restricted area (15 to 20 kilometers)....
File Number : 13
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators
Correspondence and reports of the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington, the US State Department and diplomatic missions of the United States in Europe regarding the Nazi occupation of Hungary, deportation of Jews and rescue attempts, August-December 1944
Pages 1-15:
Telegrams from the US legation in Bern to the US State Department in Washington and from McClelland in Switzerland to the War Refugee Board (WRB) regarding the situation of the Jews in Budapest, rescue possibilities and rescue attempts, August 1944;
Pages 16-17:
Report from London regarding a debate in Parliament regarding the provision of...
File Number : 84
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Telegram
Documentation, including reports, protocols, orders and so forth, related mainly to activities of the RSHA, SS, SD, Police and Wehrmacht, 1939-1944; documentation dated, 1939-1946
Included in the file:
23/06/1942
Letter, marked as Classified, of SS-Oberfuehrer Viktor Brack to Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, in which he suggests to select and preserve approximately two-three million fit-for-work Jews following their sterilization or castration by X-ray. (pp. 2-3).
27/10/1943
Letter of SS-Gruppenfuehrer Odilo Globocnik (from Triest) to SS-Gruppenfuehrer Maximilian von Herff in the...
File Number : 120
Type of Material : Correspondence, Administrative Documentation, Reports, Official Documentation, Protocol, Orders
Memoirs of Eva (Mosse) Noack, born in Berlin, Germany, regarding her experiences in Augsburg, Bauchowitz and Theresienstadt
Orders received from the Gestapo to report for non-specified labor in Augsburg; deportation to Augsburg; life in Augsberg; round-up at the Bernhard Müller factory; deportation to Bauchowitz; transfer to Theresienstadt; camp life; searches of her possessions and confiscation of valuables; medical examination; yellow badge; family registration; bodily examination; shower; disinfection and haircut; assignment of living quarters; supplying water; assignment of preferred living quarters;...
Group testimony of Jews who escaped from the Ninth Fort in Kaunas on 25 December 1943, regarding the opening of graves and incineration of the bodies of Jews who were murdered in the area of the fort
Information regarding mass murders of Jews in the area of the Ninth Fort in 1941-1942; opening the graves to destroy the bodies and conceal the murders; concentration of laborers for labor at the Ninth Fort in 1943; murder of the sick and elderly laborers in November 1943; opening of graves and incineration of the bodies from 1 November 1943 to 25 December 1943; escape of laborers from the fortress on 25...