are based on any direct witnesses. Aftermath Walter Schmald, of the SiPo-SD, was captured by resistance fighters at Brive on 15 August 1944, and was executed by them without trial on 22 August. Otto Weidinger, the last commander of the regiment Der Führer, was interrogated on the subject of the massacre during his detention from 1947 to 1951. He was prosecuted for his voluntary support for the Waffen-SS, considered a criminal organization according to the Nuremberg trials, and was acquitted. After his release, he wrote numerous books on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, considered in France to be revisionist. The first investigation, which covers the killing of the eighteen watchmen at the train station, was closed on the 25 March 1948 having established the basis for the trial which opened in Bordeaux on 29 March 1949, which found ten members of the guilty of those murders under the orders of Captain Franz Reichmann, commander of the 3rd battalion. The three accused officers were sentenced to 15 (Franz Reichmann, Willi Schlewski) or 10 (Jean Retzer) years of hard labour; 4 of the accused were found guilty but were later released on the basis that they had acted under orders and 3 were acquitted. Schlewski and Retzer were released on the 18 September 1952 and Reichmann was released on 25 January 1953. The judicial inquiry on the hangings at Tulle, which opened on 18 June 1947, led notably to a provisional report by Commissioner of Police Félix Hugonnaud which concluded that the hangings were apparently commanded by the SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Lammerding, as a result of which three arrest warrants were issued. The trial (case against Kahn et al. Hangings in Tulle) opened in Bordeaux on 4 July 1951 and the verdict was pronounced the following day. Only five people stood accused: four officers of the Das Reich division – Lammerding, Aurel Kowatsch, division Chief of Staff Otto Hoff, Commandant of the section of pioneers, and a German employee of the weapons factory in Tulle, Paula Geissler. This last was accused of having not saved an engineer of the factory that she could have done without running any personal risk. Curiously, the tribunal declined to try hundreds of people including the members of the execution squad who could easily have been included. Lammerding and Kowatsch, that latter of which had died in March 1945 on the Eastern Front near the Hungarian