one made use of wartime regulations such as the blackout to commit a crime. Based on a single eyewitness account that Katzenberger had left Seiler's apartment "when it was already dark", Rothaug applied this law to sentence Katzenberger to death. Aftermath Katzenberger was guillotined at Stadelheim Prison in Munich on 2 June 1942. Seiler was found guilty of perjury for denying an affair had taken place and sentenced to two years' imprisonment: in accordance with Adolf Hitler's wishes, women were not charged under the Racial Protection Law, but could be charged with perjury or obstruction of justice. She died in July 1984 in Apolda, aged 74. Even among some Nazi officials, the tenuous grounds on which Katzenberger had been sentenced to death caused disquiet. Rothaug was moved to a state attorney's job in Berlin in 1943 because Justice Minister Otto Georg Thierack considered him unfit to be a judge. In 1947 the Americans tried Rothaug, partly for his role in the Katzenberger trial, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Rothaug was released in December 1956, aged 59, and died in Cologne in 1967, aged 70. References People condemned by Nazi courts 1873 births 1942 deaths Trials in Germany