Post-war Convictions
Josef Oberhauser was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Soviet military tribunal in East Germany for charges relating to euthanasia. He was provided with an amnesty on 28 April 1956. Following his release, Josef Oberhauser served as a casual labourer, bartender and waiter in Munich.
In 1963 the Bełżec trial began and Oberhauser was one of 8 defendants charged with war crimes committed there at the former extermination camp. On 30 January 1964, all of the defendants bar Oberhauser were acquitted due to the collapse of the prosecution case but re-arrested shortly thereafter. Oberhauser appeared before the court again in January 1965. He was found guilty and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months imprisonment. Oberhauser was released after serving half of his sentence. He died in 1979. Oberhauser was unwillingly filmed for Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah, released in 1985.
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