Capture and Imprisonment
After a confrontation, he went on the run and evaded the police for some time, until he was eventually betrayed and captured, the arresting officer was Claude Sterley, a fellow Springbok Boxer who was, at the time a Sergeant in the South African Police.
He was armed at the time but did not resist his captures. The police arrested him in Pretoria.
In 1943 he was sentenced to death for high treason. Although Leibbrandt refused to give evidence at any stage in the trial, he claimed that he had acted "for Volk and Führer" and gave the Nazi salute when he first entered the court, to which several spectators responded. After being sentenced to death Leibbrandt shouted loudly and clearly "I greet death".
His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by General Smuts on 11 March 1943. In 1948, Leibbrandt was released in an amnesty of war offenders by the newly victorious Nationalist government, which had opposed South Africa's entry into the war on the side of the Allies and wanted to remain neutral.
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