SEPP DIETRICH

SEPP DIETRICH One of Adolf Hitler's earliest supporters, head of the Leibstandarte -SS Adolf Hitler Regiment and later Commander of the Sixth SS Panzer Army during World War II. Captured by the American Seventh Army in May 1945. Tried in 1946 and given a life sentence for his role in the massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy. He was secretly released on 22 October 1955 from the American War crimes prison at Landsberg on the recommendatioin of a joint Allied-Germany clemency board. He was rearrested in 1956 and charged with aiding and abetting in the Roehm murders. He was found guilty by a Munich court as an accessory to murder and sentenced to 19 months in prison. Released again in February 1959, he died of a heart attack in Ludwigsburg on 21 April 1966