Survivors sued the Lloyd for damages . This was initially rejected , but Ministry of Commerce later allowed compensation in limited form of 200,000 crowns . Survivors who disagreed with this appealed in the courts . Almost all court documents about the sinking and the following processes were later lost . Numerous documents were lost during the July Revolt of 1927 when the Vienna Palace of Justice was burned down . Other documents were destroyed in Kristallnacht of 1938 because the lawyer of the survivors was a Jew and his office was ransacked
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
SS Baron Gautsch