mechanical stretching devices on the accused, who were subsequently sentenced to death after a brief trial and executed by hanging on 9 April 1945, only around two weeks before the camp's liberation. Otto Thorbeck later testified that the conspiracy trials lasted three hours under Huppenkothen's direction and that he shouted the accusation at them, then permitted a brief answer period before the death sentence was imposed. A commemorative plaque for the prisoners executed, as well as a statue of Bonhoeffer, exists at the former site of the camp, now a memorial site. Post-war Collaboration with US military Huppenkothen was captured at Gmunden on 26 April 1945. After the war, Huppenkothen was interned by the Americans and worked for the Counterintelligence Corps of the US Army until 1949. The Army's counterintelligence division took a particular interest in Huppenkothen's knowledge of Communism and his work as a Gestapo official in searching for members of the Communist resistance and espionage group, the Red Orchestra. Trials and testimonies From 1949–1956, Walter Huppenkothen was tried multiple times for torture and murder in his 8 April 1945 prosecution. For the charge(s) of murder, Huppenkothen was acquitted, but he was still sentenced to prison-time on charges of torture (sources conflict on the exact length of the sentence, but it is believed to have ranged somewhere between 3.5–7 years), although the acquittal of his murder charge(s) has continued to arouse criticism in modern times. Huppenkothen also testified at the May 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, Israel, though his family reported that he was reluctant to do so. References 1907 births 1978 deaths SS-Standartenführer Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia Gestapo personnel Einsatzgruppen personnel Lawyers in the Nazi Party Reich Security Main Office personnel