Rechzeh of acting as a spy who had caused harm to others due to their political opposition to Nazism. On 3 June 1950 Reckzeh was sentenced at the district court of Chemnitz to fifteen years imprisonment. However, he was released from prison under a partial amnesty in October 1952. After his release, he lived in East Germany and resumed practicing as a doctor. In 1978 he betrayed his daughter Barbara to the East German STASI when she tried to flee to Hamburg. References 1913 births 1996 deaths East German physicians 20th-century German physicians Gestapo agents Physicians from Berlin World War II spies for Germany Nazis convicted of war crimes