 His sister Carin von Herff moved to London during his imprisonment where she would live for four years before returning to Germany with her French Huguenot husband, a former SS-"Oberführer" of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French).Both were acquitted of any war crimes and along with Maximilian von Herff claim they were only involved in the Nazi Party base and Waffen-SS not the extermination of the Jews.The couple would later return to live in England in the 1960s.