began to harvest the brains of his victims for further study. In 1943 Gross was called for military service, returning pretty regularly for research until his capture in 1945. Gross was held in Soviet custody from 1945 to December 1947. After his release, Gross was arrested by Austrian authorities and put on trial for murder for his involvement in the murder of a child. In March 1950, he was convicted of being an accessory to manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison. Gross was released from prison on 1 April 1950. His conviction was overturned in 1951. Post-war career In the same year of his overturned manslaughter case, Gross was allowed to resume his research at Rosenhügel. In 1955, he completed his training as a specialist in nervous and mental diseases and became the head prison doctor or physician in the former Hospital and nursing home Am Steinhof. In 1957 he became the Chief court psychiatrist for men's mental institutions. There he worked with the justice system in insanity cases and was the main decision maker in all sterilization cases as well. He got promoted to the management of the "Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the study of the abnormalities of the nervous system" created specially for him in 1968. Gross worked as a reviewer and for years was considered the most busy court expert in Austria. In 1975 the Republic of Austria awarded him the medal für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1, of which he was stripped of in 2003. In 1975 it was realized that he had been involved in illegal killings during the Nazi occupation of Austria. Gross was stripped of many awards but continued serving as a court expert until he came under investigation in 1997 for nine counts of murder. Trial Gross was placed on trial for war crimes in 1999, however the trial was suspended in 2000 due to his dementia and Parkinsons disease. Gross died on 15 December 2005 aged 90. Notes References External links 1915 births 2005 deaths Austrian Nazis Holocaust perpetrators in Austria Austrian neurologists Physicians in the Nazi Party Austrian prisoners and detainees Aktion T4 personnel Austrian psychiatrists Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class Hitler Youth members Sturmabteilung personnel Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union Prisoners and detainees of Austria