Spanknöbel boarded the S.S. Europa ocean liner bound for Bremen on 29 October. Back in Germany, Spanknöbel reportedly became a director of the Propaganda School for Germans Living Abroad. In 1942, a company called Vereinigte Leder- und Lederwarenfabriken Heinz Spanknöbel & Co. [United Leather and leather goods factories Heinz Spanknöbel & Co.] was founded in Hohenbruck near Königgrätz in then Sudetenland. Death After the occupation by the Soviet military, Spanknöbel was arrested on 4 October 1945 in Dresden by the NKVD secret police. He was held in captivity in the NKVD Special Camp No. 1 near Mühlberg, Brandenburg, where he died of starvation on 10 March 1947. See also German American Bund References 1893 births 1947 deaths Nazi Party officials German anti-communists Former Seventh-day Adventists German emigrants to the United States Nazi propagandists People deported from the United States People who died in NKVD Special Camp No. 1 Nazis who died in prison custody American collaborators with Nazi Germany Deaths by starvation