The first investigation, which covers the killing of the eighteen watchmen at the train station, was closed on the 25 March 1948 having established the basis for the trial which opened in Bordeaux on 29 March 1949, which found ten members of the guilty of those murders under the orders of Captain Franz Reichmann, commander of the 3rd battalion. The three accused officers were sentenced to 15 (Franz Reichmann, Willi Schlewski) or 10 (Jean Retzer) years of hard labour; 4 of the accused were found guilty but were later released on the basis that they had acted under orders and 3 were acquitted. Schlewski and Retzer were released on the 18 September 1952 and Reichmann was released on 25 January 1953.