 Her testimony served a crucial part in the trials of war criminals.Until 1949, Arājs was held in a British internment camp in Germany.After that he is rumored in some sources to have worked as a driver for the British armed forces under the British military government in Delmenhorst, then in the British Zone of Occupation, but Richards Plavnieks, who extensively researched Arājs' life, believes this to be untrue.