Landesgericht Feldkirch: NS-Verfahren
Extent and Medium
861 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Landesgericht Feldkirch
Archival History
Landesgericht Feldkirch
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Landesgericht Feldkirch (State Court in Feldkirch), Vorarlberg, Austria. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in June 2020.
Scope and Content
Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the state court in Feldkirch, Austria. Contains a court case against August Kűng, a member of the Stryj gendarmerie, Ukraine (Stryj district: Zawadow [Zavadiv], Mykolaiv [Mykolaiv] and Rozvadov) from the end of August 1941 to the beginning of January 1943 (one file). Kűng was involved in German violent crimes against Jews.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in one group: 1. LG Feldkirch Vr 730/73 gg. August Kűng (Beteiligung an NS-Gewaltverbrechen an Jüdinnen und Juden als Angehöriger der Gendarmeriedienststelle Stryj, Ukraine (Kreis Stryj: Zawadow [Zavadiv], Mykolajiw [Mykolajiw] und Rozvadov) von Ende August 1941 bis Anfang Jänner 1943) [one file]. Organized chronologically and by the court case. The cover sheet precedes each case file. Files include the name and personal data of each defendant, a summary of the case including the criminal charges, a description of the crime(s), as well as the judicial history of each case. These cover sheets were digitized at the beginning of each file and are also available as a separate finding aid.
People
- Küng, August.
Corporate Bodies
- Ministry of Justice (Austria)
Subjects
- War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria.
- Austria--Politics and government--20th century.
- Austria.
- War crime trials--Austria--History--20th century.
- Executive departments.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Russia.
- Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Austria.
- War crime trials--Austria--History--20th century.
- War crimes investigation--Austria.
- Stryĭ (Ukraine)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
- Jews--Persecutions--Europe--History--20th century.
- War criminals--Austria--History--20th century.
- Mykolaïv (Mykolaïvsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Genre
- Portraits.
- Correspondence.
- Court records.
- Applications.
- Depositions.
- Questionnaires.
- Document