However, he was arrested again on 31 December and charged with "insulting the German currency." This appeared to be the result of a letter he had written to his publisher, in which he had complained that the inflation rate was eroding the value of his royalties. On 9 January 1945, he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp, where accounts of his death differ; one source suggests that Reck was executed there 23 February, shot in the neck (Genickschuss), while the official death certificate recorded a death from typhus on February 16.
He was arrested again on December 31st and charged with "insulting the German currency." This stemmed from a letter he wrote to his publisher, where he complained about inflation eroding the value of his royalties. On January 9th, 1945, he was transferred to Dachau concentration camp; accounts of his death differ; one source suggests that Reck was executed there on February 23rd by being shot in the neck (Genickschuss), while another states that he died from typhus on February 16th.