In 1967, Arnold Strippel (1911-1994) was investigated in the murder of the children at Bullenhuser Damm. No trial was ever held, as the public prosecutor found no evidence of the SS man’s complicity and did not consider the children’s hanging to be a particularly cruel act.
Strippel spent time in prison, however, because a Frankfurt court had already sentenced the former concentration camp employee to life imprisonment in 1947.