 In the interrogation in front of a judge in Innsbruck, he played down his role in the Gestapo prison and denied having been involved with torture and murder.An application for extradition by the Czechoslovak government was ignored by the Austrian justice department.Malloth was tried "in absentia" in September 1948 in Czechoslovakia for war crimes in Terezín/Theresienstadt, but by then Malloth had already been released by the Austrian court.