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Walter Huppenkothen -LRB- December 31 , 1907 in Haan , Rhineland -- April 5 , 1978 in Lubeck -RRB- was a German lawyer and Nazi SS prosecutor in the Hauptamt SS-Gericht .. Haan. Haan. Rhineland. Rhineland. Lubeck. Lubeck. German. Germans. Nazi. Nazi. Schutzstaffel. Hauptamt SS-Gericht. Hauptamt SS-Gericht. Huppenkothen attended school in Opladen and studied Law and Political Science at the University of Cologne and University of Dusseldorf and then qualified as a lawyer .. Opladen. Opladen. Political Science. Political Science. University of Cologne. University of Cologne. University of Dusseldorf. University of Dusseldorf. On May 1 , 1933 , he joined the Nazi Party and the Allgemeine SS .. Nazi. Nazi. Schutzstaffel. Nazi Party. Nazi Party. Allgemeine SS. Allgemeine SS. Unable to find employment in government service he joined the SD -LRB- the intelligence service of the SS -RRB- in Dusseldorf .. Schutzstaffel. Sicherheitsdienst. After the invasion of Poland he was commander of the Security Police and the SD in Krakow , then in February 1940 he was posted Lublin as head of the Gestapo .. Sicherheitsdienst. Krakow. Krakow. Lublin. Lublin. From July 1941 he was appointed to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin with the rank of Sturmbannfuhrer -LRB- Major -RRB- in charge of a Gestapo Unit dealing with reactionaries and liberals , as the successor to Walter Schellenberg .. Berlin. Berlin. Sturmbannfuhrer. Sturmbannfuhrer. Walter Schellenberg. Walter Schellenberg. After the dismissal of Wilhelm Canaris he attended a meeting in March 1944 that established a unified intelligence service .. Wilhelm Canaris. Wilhelm Canaris. As an SS Standartenfuhrer -LRB- Colonel -RRB- he was appointed the prosecutor of the SS and police court in Munich .. Schutzstaffel. Standartenfuhrer. Standartenfuhrer. Munich. Munich. On April 6 , 1945 , he prosecuted Hans von Dohnanyi in Sachsenhausen concentration camp while the defendant lay semi-conscious on a stretcher having contracted a serious infection and the proceedings ended with him being condemned to death by Sturmbannfuhrer Otto Thorbeck .. Sturmbannfuhrer. Sturmbannfuhrer. Hans von Dohnanyi. Hans von Dohnanyi. Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Otto Thorbeck. Otto Thorbeck. On April 8 , 1945 , under orders from Ernst Kaltenbrunner , he was the prosecutor at a drumhead court-martial presided over by Otto Thorbeck without witnesses , records of proceedings or a defence in Flossenburg concentration camp .. Otto Thorbeck. Otto Thorbeck. Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Ernst Kaltenbrunner. drumhead court-martial. drumhead court-martial. Flossenburg concentration camp. Flossenburg concentration camp. It condemned Dietrich Bonhoeffer , General Hans Oster , Army chief judge Dr. Karl Sack , Captain Ludwig Gehre and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to death .. Wilhelm Canaris. Wilhelm Canaris. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hans Oster. Hans Oster. Karl Sack. Karl Sack. Ludwig Gehre. Ludwig Gehre. They were all hanged on April 9 , two weeks before the United States Army liberated the camp .. United States Army. United States Army. Thorbeck later testified that the conspiracy trials lasted three hours under Huppenkothen 's direction and that he shouted the accusation at them , then permitted a brief answer period before the death sentence was imposed and the prisoners were executed the following day .. He was captured at Gmunden on April 26 , 1945 .. Gmunden. Gmunden. After the war Huppenkothen was interned by the Americans and worked for the Counterintelligence Corps of the US Army until 1949 .. Counterintelligence Corps of the US Army. Counterintelligence Corps ( United States Army ). He was tried in West Germany in the 1950s and sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment , but was acquitted of murder .. West Germany. West Germany. That acquittal was , and remains , controversial .