Wannsee Conference - Fates of The Attendees

Fates of The Attendees

In order of death

• Reinhard Heydrich died in Prague on 4 June 1942 as a result of injuries sustained during a May 27 attack by Czech and Slovak resistance fighters parachuted in from England.
• Roland Freisler was killed in a USAAF air-raid in Berlin in February 1945.
• Rudolf Lange was said to have been killed in action in Poland in February 1945 but his exact fate remains unclear.
• Alfred Meyer killed himself in April 1945.
• Heinrich Müller was last seen in Berlin on 29 April 1945. His fate is unknown, but he probably died in Berlin in the next few days.
• Martin Luther finished the war in a German concentration camp after falling out with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1943. After being freed by the Soviets, Luther died in Berlin in May 1945.
• Karl Eberhard Schöngarth was executed for war crimes (killing British prisoners of war) in May 1946.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger was acquitted of war crimes and died in October 1947.
• Josef Bühler was tried in Poland for war crimes and executed in Kraków in July 1948.
• Erich Neumann was briefly imprisoned and died in mid-1948.
• Wilhelm Stuckart was imprisoned for four years before being released for lack of evidence in 1949. He was killed in a car accident in November, 1953.
• Adolf Eichmann managed to escape to Argentina where he lived under a false identity. In 1960 he was captured by the Mossad, imprisoned in Israel, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, and finally executed in May 1962.
• Georg Leibbrandt was charged with war crimes but the case against him was dismissed in 1950. He died in June 1982.
• Otto Hofmann was sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes, but was pardoned in 1954. He died in December 1982.
• Gerhard Klopfer was charged with war crimes but was released for lack of evidence. He became a tax advisor, later dying in January 1987.