 Barth was sentenced to life imprisonment by the First Senate of the City Court of Berlin.He was released from prison in the reunified Germany in 1997 and died in August 2007.On 8 January 2014, Werner Christukat, an 88-year-old former member of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the "Der Führer" SS regiment was charged, by the state court in Cologne, with 25 charges of murder and hundreds of counts of accessory to murder in connection with the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane.