At the Nuremberg Trials, Naujocks declared the attack against German Radio Tower in Gleiwitz was under orders from Heinrich Müller, the head of Gestapo and his superior, Reinhard Heydrich. After the war, he escaped from custody before his trial for war crimes, and lived in hiding into the 1960s. He worked as a businessman in Hamburg, where he eventually sold his story to the media as The Man who Started the War.