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J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> 189 6.5. The Sobibór Trial that Never Took Place As opposed to the defendants in the Sobibór trials in Berlin, Frankfurt, or Hagen, who had merely occupied low-level posts during the war, the man brought to trial in Vienna in 1962 in connection with the events at Sobibór, Be��ec, and Treblinka was a real heavyweight. Hermann Julius Höfle, born in 1911, had been “Referent für Judenangelegenheiten – Aktion Reinhardt” (counselor for Jewish affairs – Aktion Reinhardt) in Lublin and deputy of Odilo Globocnik, the chief of SS and police in Lublin. It was he who reported in a radio message that up to the end of 1942 1,274,166 persons had been transported to “B.,” “S.” and “T.” Referring to a meeting with Höfle, Fritz Reuter would write in March of 1943 that the Jews deported to Be��ec would be moved on “across the border and would never return to the General Government.” 542 Hermann Höfle had been taken prisoner by the British in 1945 and handed over to the Austrian judicial authorities in 1947 but was liberated soon thereafter. In 1961 he was arrested once again and indicted. On 20 (other sources make it the 21 st ) August 1962, just prior to the opening of the trial, he hanged himself in his Vienna prison. 543 This, at least, is the official version, which is not altogether convincing, though. After Höfle’s arrest, enough evidence was collected against him to fill nine volumes, but “the Vienna prosecutor’s office had not managed by that date [Höfle’s alleged suicide] to extract a formal indictment from those substantial files.” 544 This clearly indicates that Höfle had never admitted the annihilation of the Jews that the prosecution intended to lay at his feet. If he had indeed confessed, it would have been the easiest thing in world for the prosecution to prepare “a formal indictment from those substantial files.” This leads one to believe that Höfle, who knew very well what went on in the camps at Be��ec, Sobibór, and Treblinka, had stolidly maintained in the face of the Austrian judiciary that the three camps had been transit camps and that the alleged annihilations were nothing but propaganda. In view of the important part played by Höfle in connection with the deportations of the Jews, the impending trial would have encountered 542 Cf. chapter 9, p. 297. 543 www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/hoefle html 544 www nachkriegsjustiz.at/prozesse/geschworeneng/rezeption.pdf
190 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, <strong>SOBIBÓR</strong> great international coverage in the media. The Austrian authorities simply could not afford a defendant who refuted, point blank and in front of journalists from all over the world, the alleged extermination of Jews in the three camps of “Aktion Reinhardt.” Seen in this light, we believe that Hermann Höfle did not commit suicide but was probably eliminated. 6.6. The Three Sobibór Trials in the Soviet Union Three trials were conducted in the Soviet Union against former Ukrainian guards of the Sobibór camp. On the subject of the first trial, we have not been able to find out such details as the number of defendants or the place and date of the trial. The website “Aktion Reinhard Camps” gives only the following somewhat laconic information on this point: 545 “A few of the Ukrainian guards who served at Sobibór were brought to trial in the Soviet Union, such as B. Bielakow, M. Matwijenko, I. Nikfor, W. Podienko, F. Tichonowski, Emanuel Schultz and J. Zajcew. They were found guilty and executed for their crimes.” The second and third trials took place in Kiev in April of 1963 and June of 1965, respectively. During the former, ten defendants were sentenced to be shot, another was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. During the latter, the Soviet court pronounced three death sentences. If we follow the website “Aktion Reinhard Camps,” 545 A. Pechersky took the stand in the first trial, but according to B. Distel 546 he was a witness for the prosecution at both trials. Alexander A. Pechersky could thus boast of having brought ten or thirteen men in front of a firing squad and of having had another man locked up for a decade and a half through his lies. 545 www.deathcamps.org/sobibor/sobibortrials html 546 B. Distel, op. cit. (note 69), p. 400.
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