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I was curious as to what became of the despicable Dr. Robert Ley, quoted at the bottom of page 8 at the end of the article on the Holocaust.

Here’s what I found:

“As the Third Reich collapsed in early 1945, Ley was among the government figures who remained fanatically loyal to Hitler. He last saw Hitler on 20 April 1945, the Führer’s birthday, in the bunker in central Berlin. The next day he left for southern Bavaria, in the expectation that Hitler would make his last stand in the “National Redoubt” in the alpine areas. When Hitler refused to leave Berlin, this idea was abandoned, and Ley was then effectively unemployed. On 16 May he was captured by American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division in a shoemaker’s house in the village of Schleching, Germany. He told them he was “Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer,” but he was identified by Franz Xaver Schwarz, the treasurer of the Nazi Party and a long-time enemy. When he was identified he tried to commit suicide, but was prevented by his captors.

“At the Nuremberg War Trials, Ley was indicted under Count One (”The Common Plan or Conspiracy to wage an aggressive war in violation of international law or treaties”), Count Three (War Crimes, including among other things “mistreatment of prisoners of war or civilian populations”) and Count Four (”Crimes Against Humanity - murder, extermination, enslavement of civilian populations; persecution on the basis of racial, religions or political grounds”). Ley was indignant at being treated as a war criminal. He said to the American prison psychiatrist Gustave Gilbert: “Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c- ... I can’t even get the word [criminal] out!” On 25 October, four days after receiving the indictment, Ley hanged himself in his cell, using a noose made by tearing up a towel into strips, fastened to a pipe in the toilet.”

— http://www.universe-galaxies-stars.com/Robert_Ley.html