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==After the war== Bach-Zelewski went into hiding and tried to leave the country. However, US military police arrested him on 1 August 1945. In exchange for his testimony against his former superiors at the Nuremberg Trials, Bach-Zelewski never faced trial for any war crimes. Similarly, he never faced extradition to Poland or to the USSR. He left prison in 1949. In 1951, Bach-Zelewski claimed that he had helped [[Hermann Göring]] commit suicide in 1946. As evidence, he produced cyanide capsules to the authorities with serial numbers not far removed from the one used by Göring. The authorities never verified von dem Bach-Zelewski's claim, however, and did not charge him with aiding Göring's death. Most modern historians dismiss Bach-Zalewski's claim and agree that a U.S. Army contact within the Palace of Justice's prison at Nuremberg most likely aided Göring in his suicide. Also in 1951, Bach-Zelewski was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp for the murder of political opponents in the early 1930s; however, he did not serve time until 1958, when he was convicted of killing Anton von Hohberg und Buchwald, a ''[[Sturmabteilung]]'' officer, during the [[Night of the Long Knives]], and was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment. In 1961, he was sentenced to an additional 10 years in home custody for the murder of 10 German Communists in the early 1930s. None of the sentences referred to his role in Poland, in the East, or his participation in [[the Holocaust]], although he openly denounced himself as a mass murderer. He died in a Munich prison on 8 March 1972. [[Category:List]] [[Category:Male]] [[Category:Deceased]] [[Category:Political]] [[Category:Military]] [[Category:Remorseful]] [[Category:Villains of World War 2]] [[Category:Sadists]] [[Category:Murderer]] [[Category:Modern Villains]] [[Category:Totalitarians]] [[Category:War Criminal]] [[Category:Warlords]] [[Category:Control Freaks]] [[Category:Corrupt Officials]] [[Category:Mass Murderers]] [[Category:Genocidal]] [[Category:Master Manipulator]] [[Category:Mongers]] [[Category:Terrorists]] [[Category:Delusional]] [[Category:Evil vs. Evil]] [[Category:Deaths in prison]] [[Category:Fascist]] [[Category:European Villains]] [[Category:Germany]] [[Category:Nazi Party Members]] [[Category:Misogynists]] [[Category:Anti-Religious]]
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