The initial indictment was issued by the senior prosecutor ("Oberreichsanwalt") of the special "People's Court" on 29 June 1942. It stated that between 1940 and the first part of 1942 Rosa Hoffmann had "continued, both alone and jointly with others, the highly treasonable enterprise, in Salzburg and the surrounding region, to prepare for the forcible change of the [German] constitution and the breaking away of a territory belonging to the [German] state (i.e. Austria)" . (The reversal of the 1938 incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany had indeed become a key objective of the Communist Party in particular, and more broadly of many other Austrian anti-fascists.) From this it followed logically that the initial indictment against Hofmann was simply the usual ones for those being arrested in connection with "communist activism" of "preparing to commit high treason" ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat") under §80 and §83 in the of that time.