their hideous activities, being responsible for the massacres of Chortiatis and Giannitsa, among others. When the German Army retreated from Macedonia in October 1944 Schubert and 70 of his men also retreated to Yugoslavia and stayed there for a few months. Schubert arrived in Vienna in February 1945 and before the Red Army captured the city he went to Schwaz in west Austria. When the US army arrived to Schwaz, Schubert and his mistress impersonated Greek displaced persons and were placed in a camp in Innsbruck awaiting transfer to Greece. After World War II Schubert attempted to return to Greece because he wanted to be with his mistress or because he had no choice. On 5 September 1945 he arrived in Eleusina military airport on board a plane repatriating ex-concentration camp prisoners back to Greece from Munich, under the false name Kostantinos Konstantinidis (Κωνσταντίνος Κωνσταντινίδης). When he was interrogated by Greek Police officers, the answers he gave were unsatisfactory and vague and was kept in custody for further examination. When he was in custody he was recognized as Friedrich Schubert by various witnesses and prosecuted for war crimes. On August 5, 1947 he was found guilty of 271 murders and several other crimes including arson, burned numerous villages, rapes, murder of women and children in cold blood, spoils of war, and thefts. For these, Schubert was convicted 27 times to death and several thousand years of imprisonment. He was executed by firing squad in Eptapyrgio, Thessaloniki on October 22, 1947. See also Security Battalions Notes External links Chortiatis massacre from German Wikipedia «Jagdkommando Schubert» Η αιμοσταγής δράση του «Σώματος Κυνηγών» του Σούμπερτ στην Κρήτη 1897 births 1947 deaths German mass murderers Crete in World War II Nazis executed in Greece Military personnel from Dortmund Executed people from North Rhine-Westphalia German occupation of Thessaloniki Executed mass murderers