Treachery Act 1940 10 July 1941. Duncan Scott-Ford was also executed for treachery in November 1942. German agent Josef Jakobs, the last person to be executed in the Tower of London, was court-martialled and executed by firing squad under this Act. The last person to be executed under the Treachery Act was the British soldier Theodore Schurch, executed on 4 January 1946, who was the last person to be executed in the United Kingdom for an offence other than murder. A seventeenth person, Portuguese diplomat Rogerio de Magalhaes Peixoto de Menezes, was sentenced to death but had his sentence commuted by the Home
Josef Blösche Hamburg linked Blösche to the atrocities he had committed in Warsaw. Further investigation by the East German police led to a series of findings resulting in his identification. Blösche was arrested on 11 January 1967 and imprisoned in Hohenschönhausen Prison. Blösche was put on trial in Erfurt in April 1969, and was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was executed in Leipzig on 29 July 1969 by a shot through the neck. Josef Blösche Josef Blösche (12 February 1912 – 29 July 1969) was a member of the Nazi Party who served in the SS and SD during World