High treason in the United Kingdom sentenced to be shot or hanged for this offence instead of for treason (one death sentence was commuted). Theodore Schurch was the last person to be put to death for treachery, in 1946. He was also the last person to be executed for a crime other than murder. Josef Jakobs, a German spy executed for treachery, was the last person to be executed in the Tower of London. The Treachery Act 1940 was suspended in February 1946, and was repealed in 1967. In June 1945 the Treason Act 1945 abolished the special rules of evidence and procedure formerly used in
Josef Kaiser been contemplated by politicians, and the German Labour Front operated in some respects as a branch of government. In 1938 Josef Kaiser became a Nazi Party member. Between 1941 and 1945 Josef Kaiser was head of the "Basic conceptual planning" (""Grundrisstypenplanung"") department at the "Germany Academy for Residential Housing" in Berlin-Buch. In May 1945 war ended, and with it the Nazi régime. For Josef Kaiser it was also the year in which he underwent serious illness. On his recovery he embarked on a striking career switch, enrolling in 1946 at the Dresden Music Academy where he trained for a career