Documents from the trial conducted in Landesgericht (regional court) in Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna against members of the HSSPF Lublin: Documentation of the trial, volume 15; Testimonies by Austrian and German perpetrators and Jewish survivors, 1961
Letters (1961) of the investigating judge from the Landesgericht Salzburg (regional court) to various magistrate courts in Germany requesting legal assistance in the criminal proceedings against Hermann Hoefle; the letters contain an account of the suspicion, its factual foundation, and Hoefle's vindication, as well as requests for hearings of the witnesses...
File Number : 72
Type of Material : Maps, 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: Documentation of the trial, Volume 49; Documentation of the trial against Dr. Ludwig Hahn, held in the Hamburg Regional Court: Testimonies by perpetrators (including soldiers from Police Battalion 61) and survivors regarding the Warsaw Ghetto, August 1960 - July...
File Number : 49
Type of Material : Record of Persecuted Persons, Official Documentation, Names of Perpetrators, Investigation Report, Letter(s), Legal Documentation, Record of Survivors, Testimony
Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 06 October 1949
Continuation of the opening speech by the Defense of von Manstein;
Important note: This is from the point of view of the Defense.
Barbarossa order by Adolf Hitler before the war. (p. 4)
Russian campaign: Killing of Russian commissars. (pp. 5-10)
Von Manstein’s own account of what happened in the Crimea (pp. 10-17);
Important note:
Von Manstein does not use or mention, at any time, the words: Jew, Jewish, Bolshevist, final aim [solution], or...
File Number : 23
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, 15 September 1949
Discussion between the Prosecution and the Defense; Correction of mistakes in the documents. (pp. 3-9)
Labor reinforcements from Russia to assist the war effort in Germany;
Orders regarding the harsh measures of the SD (Security Police) of Einsatzgruppe D:
Shooting of Jews, agricultural experts and children, [total] burning of villages, and the shooting of persons who attempted to escape. (pp. 9-10)
Mention of the shooting of Hungarian Jews. (p. 10)...
File Number : 18
Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Indictment, Legal Documentation
Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 09 September 1949
Mass murder of civilians in the accused areas of command; Crimes by the German Army, by units subordinate to the Accused (p. 4);
Repetition of Exhibit 198:
Order (signed by the Accused on 12/06/1941; Important note: 10 days before the campaign between Germany and the Soviet Union):
Directions for the behavior of the troops in Russia: “Bolshevism is the deadly enemy of the National Socialist German people”;
[There is to be] ruthless and energetic...
File Number : 14
Type of Material : Legal Documentation, Indictment, Names of Perpetrators
Testimony of Maksymilian Raucher, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1909, regarding the murder of Mordechai Gebirtig and Abraham Neuman in the Krakow Ghetto and the murder of Jews in the Julag and Wola Duchacka camps
Helps supply bread to Mordechai Gebirtig, a poet, and Abraham Neuman, a painter, in the Krakow Ghetto; murder of the two artists by members of the Sonderdienst (Special Service) during the deportation from the Krakow Ghetto, June 1942; murder of individual Jews and groups, including women, by Mueller and additional Germans, in the Julag camp and the Wola Duchacka labor camp.
Testimony of Edward Leinsieder, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding an act of heroism by Majer Krebs in the Przemysl Ghetto, April 1943
Arrival of Reisner, a Gestapo official, to a home in the Przemysl Ghetto, April 1943; Majer Krebs stabs Reisner after Reisner points his gun at him; Reisner is wounded; escape of Krebs and his two friends present at the scene; manhunt conducted by the Gestapo for the escapees; 50 hostages are taken; capture of the three escapees and their execution in a public hanging; murder of 25 of the hostages who had been detained.
Underground brochure of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) with news regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and a survey of activities of the Polish underground and the Germans in the Generalgouvernement area
Illegal publication of the PPS, [with news] regarding what is happening in the Warsaw Ghetto from the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: combat of the Jewish rebels; responses of the Germans, including throwing bombs, cutting off water and electricity and setting the streets on fire; declaration of complete identification with the Jewish fighters, in the name of the common struggle against the German...
Testimony of Amiel Szymon (Simon), given in the Bialystok district court, 12 October 1945, and testimony of a US Army soldier regarding alleged war crimes by the German forces in Lodz, and other testimonies regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the German occupation of Konin, Poland
- Testimony of Amiel Szymon (Simon), the son of Jozef and Sara Szymon, a merchant residing at 31 Sosnowa Street in Bialystok; testimony regarding his experiences as a resident in the Bialystok Ghetto; in October 1942, during a raid by the Jewish police, he is arrested along with another 20 Jews and transferred to Nowosiolki;...