to a custom to not hold any executions during a period of state mourning, the executions were delayed. After the war ended, the sentences of both Gimpel and Colepaugh were commuted to life imprisonment. Gimpel was sent to Alcatraz, where he played chess with Machine Gun Kelly. Gimpel was paroled in 1955, after serving 10 years in prison (Colepaugh would be paroled in 1960) and returned home to West Germany. Gimpel would later make his home in South America. Post prison life Gimpel was the last person to be tried before a U.S. military tribunal in the Second World War. His autobiographical account of his undercover work, Spy For Germany, was first published in English in 1957, in Great Britain. Following the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001, several books about Nazi spies in America were published, and his book finally appeared in the U.S. under the title Agent 146 (2003). Gimpel was interviewed by Oliver North for his Fox News Channel program War Stories with Oliver North in the episode "Agent 146: Spying for the Third Reich". The 100-year-old Gimpel died in São Paulo, Brazil on 3 September 2010. Film Erich Gimpel's career as a spy was dramatized in the 1956 film Spy for Germany (German title: Spion für Deutschland). The actor Martin Held played the leading role. See also John Codd William Colepaugh Notes External links Photo of Gimpel on Sharkhunters Gimpel and Colepaugh Article on Colepaugh and Gimpel at fas.org Allied report on the interrogation of Colepaugh and Gimpel at ibiblio.org Contains a report on Colepaugh and Gimpel at navy.mil On Gimpel and Colepaugh, an interview with former CIA agent Richard Gay, book author on foreign spies on US soil The movie "Spion für Deutschland (1956)" at IMDB G-Men Grab Two Nazi Spies 1910 births 2010 deaths German centenarians German prisoners sentenced to death Men centenarians World War II spies for Germany German emigrants to Brazil Prisoners sentenced to death by the United States military Recipients of American presidential clemency