 He was tried in 1947 (Dachau Trials) and sentenced to death, but on 28 September 1948 he died in Landsberg Prison of a heart attack before the sentence could be carried out.The number of women held in Buchenwald was somewhere between 500 and 1,000.The first female inmates were twenty political prisoners who were accompanied by a female SS guard ("Aufseherin"); these women were brought to Buchenwald from Ravensbrück in 1941 and forced into sexual slavery at the camp's brothel.