Illness, Arrest and Execution
In May 1943 Daluege suffered a massive heart attack and became seriously ill. In August, he was relieved of all of his daily duties and spent the rest of the war living on a property given to him by Hitler. In May 1945, Daluege was arrested by British troops in Lübeck and interned at Nuremberg until September 1946 when he was extradited to Czechoslovakia. Kurt Daluege was hanged at Pankrác prison in Prague on October 24, 1946 after having been found guilty by a Czech court of war crimes committed in the territory of occupied Czechoslovakia. He was buried in an unmarked grave at Prague's Ďáblice cemetery.
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