was found hiding in Möslacher Alm near the Weissensee Lake in Carinthia (Southern Austria) by the British, along with SS-Gruppenführer Odilo Globocnik, and SS-Sturmbannführers Ernst Lerch and Georg Michalsen. After two years in the British interrogation center Wolfsberg (Carinthia), he was released to the Austrian judicial system. On 30 October 1947, under oath, he was released to continue his earlier occupation as an auto mechanic in his birthplace, Salzburg. After an extradition request on 9 July 1948 by the Polish government, he fled to Italy, where he lived under a false name until 1951. Later he returned to Austria and then emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany. There he was employed briefly as an informant for U.S. Army Counterintelligence. Höfle returned to Salzburg, where he lived as a free man until 2 January 1961, when he was arrested by the Austrian authorities and sent to prison in Vienna, where in 1962 he hanged himself before his trial could begin. See also List of people who died by suicide by hanging References Literature 1999 edition in Google book. Peter Witte, Stephen Tyas: A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during "Einsatz Reinhardt" 1942. In: Holocaust and Genocide Studies 15 (2001), S. 468-486 Josef Wulf: Das Dritte Reich und seine Vollstrecker. K. G. Saur Verlag KG, München 1978, , S. 275-287 1911 births 1962 suicides Military personnel from Salzburg Prisoners and detainees of the British military Austrian people who died in prison custody Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Mechanics (people) Nazis who committed suicide in Austria Suicides by hanging in Austria Nazis who committed suicide in prison custody Operation Reinhard SS-Sturmbannführer Waffen-SS personnel Prisoners who died in Austrian detention