 Burgman served his prison sentence at the federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.His health deteriorated, and on May 12, 1952, he was transferred to the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he died from acute pulmonary edema due to heart disease on December 16, 1953, at the age of 59.Burgman died at the same prison as fellow Nazi propagandist Robert Henry Best on the first anniversary of Best's death.