camp to the extermination camps. He was released from Loos prison on 17 April 1954. He died on 5 May 1958, on the Cologne-Ruhr autobahn, burned to death in an accident, when something went wrong with his speeding car near Langenfeld. His death may have been a revenge killing for his role in the Holocaust. Relatives A great-nephew, Eric Abetz, is an Australian conservative and a Liberal Party former member of the Australian Senate, and was at one time a cabinet minister in the government of Tony Abbott. One of Eric's brothers, another great-nephew, the Reverend Peter Abetz, was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, also representing the Liberal Party. Eric Abetz has publicly distanced himself from his Nazi relative. See also List SS-Brigadeführer References Sources Further reading Martin Mauthner (2016). Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes: French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930–1945. UK: Sussex Academic Press. External links 1903 births 1958 deaths Ambassadors of Germany to France Nazi Party politicians People of Vichy France SS-Brigadeführer Holocaust perpetrators in France German people convicted of crimes against humanity Road incident deaths in Germany