7 Stuttgart 1, Sep. 16, 1966

Olgastrasse 7

Telephone number Justice Center 29 97 21

Extension 2 99 72

Extension 538

Public Prosecutor's Office

To the Regional Court of Stuttgart

12 Js 1464/61 - Ks 5/65

You are requested to quote this file number and the subject in any further correspondence.

Mr

Dipl. Ing. Simon Wiesenthal

Van der Nüll Gasse 54

Vienna X/ Austria

Dear Mr Wiesenthal!

In the criminal case against

1) the former SS Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Röder

2) the former SS Untersturmführer (F) Anton Löhnert

3) the former SS Untersturmführer Ernst Inquart

4) former SS Untersturmführer Walter Schallock

5) former SS Oberscharführer Ernst Epple

6) former SS Sturmmann Peter Blum

7) former SS Schütze Adolf Kolonko

8) former SS Sturmmann Ernst Heinisch

9) former SS Oberscharführer Ernst Preuß

10) former SS Oberscharführer Carl Wöbke

11) former SS Sturmmann Martin Büttner

12) former SS Sturmmann Paul Fox

13) former SS Rottenführer Hans Sobotta

14) former SS Oberscharführer Karl Ulmer

15) former SS Scharführer Roman Schönbach

16) former employee of the Lemberg Labor Office Heinz Weber

17) Mrs. Elisabeth Hansberg widowed Willhaus

for numerous crimes of murder and participation in such crimes, committed in the years 1941 to 1944 in the Lemberg area a date has been set for the main hearing before the jury court in Stuttgart.

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In view of the importance of your testimony, the presiding judge of the jury court has ordered that you be summoned to appear as a witness at the main hearing. Any statements you may have made earlier cannot replace your testimony at the main hearing, since according to the provisions of the German Code of Criminal Procedure, only statements made at the main hearing before the adjudicating court may in principle be used in arriving at a verdict. You are therefore requested to attend the trial on

Thursday, Dec.15 and Tuesday Dec. 20, 1966 9.00 a.m.

to appear before the jury court in Stuttgart, Urbanstrasse 18, jury courtroom.

The expenses incurred by you in traveling to Stuttgart and back and in staying in the Federal Republic of Germany will be reimbursed to you by the Regional Court of Stuttgart in accordance with the statutory provisions.

According to these provisions you will receive

a) reimbursement of travel expenses (round-trip air travel and land travel expenses).

b) reimbursement of expenses for the duration of the outward and return journey and for the duration of your stay in Stuttgart in accordance with the travel expenses regulations applicable here

c) compensation for any loss of earnings (up to 5 DM per hour and up to 10 hours per day). Taking into account your personal circumstances, in particular your regular gainful employment, you may also be granted higher compensation.

I ask you to submit to the

Public Prosecutor's Office at the Regional Court

For the attention of Mr.

First Public Prosecutor Sichting

7 Stuttgart -0

Olgastrasse 7

- Federal Republic of Germany -

stating the file number 12 Js 1464/61, as soon as possible that you will appear as a witness before the jury court in Stuttgart on the date stated above. Please also write again in which language (German, English, Polish, Yiddish, etc.) you wish to be questioned.

At the hearing itself, please bring this letter and a certificate of earnings from your employer, tax assessment notice or other proof of your loss of income that can be used to calculate your compensation.

With sincere regards

[handwritten]

(Sichting)

First State Attorney