sentenced him to 10 years in prison for role membership in the SS, citing his knowledge of the organization's atrocities. However, Woyrsch was released early in 1952. In 1957, he was sentenced to a further 10 years in prison after being convicted as an accessory to six counts of manslaughter for his role in executions during the Night of the Long Knives, including that of Emil Sembach. Woyrsch was released once more in 1960, and died in 1987. Notes References Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser A Band VII, Seite 403, Band 34 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 1965, Birn, Ruth Bettina : Die Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer. Himmlers Vertreter im Reich und in den besetzten Gebieten. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1986, Browning, Christopher, and Matthäus, Jürgen. The Origins of the Final Solution - The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 - March 1942. University of Nebraska Press, 2004, Klee, Ernst: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, (Aktualisierte 2. Auflage) Richard Grunberger, Hitler's SS (1970), Christopher Ailsby, SS: Role of Infamy (1997), 1895 births 1983 deaths People from Brzeg County German Army personnel of World War I SS and Police Leaders Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Silesian nobility Einsatzgruppen personnel Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Prisoners and detainees of Germany 20th-century Freikorps personnel SS-Obergruppenführer Nazis convicted of crimes