Trial of Werner Rohde and Eight Others  The Trial of Werner Rohde and Eight Others was the trial of several members of the Nazi regime in Germany for the execution of British agents without a trial. None was sentenced to death, and a few received relatively short sentences, which, in some cases, were not served as they were released after the trial by the French authorities. On 1 June 1946, nine members of the concentration camp staff at Natzweiler-Struthof were charged with the murders of four British women. Wolfgang Zeuss, Magnus Wochner, Emil Meier, Peter Straub, Fritz Hartjenstein, Franz Berg, Werner Rohde, Emil Bruttel, and Kurt Aus Dem Bruch were all tried and convicted of capital murder of British women sent to aid liaison officers in France. These women assisted in establishing communications between the resistance movement in France and London. The names of the victims were Andrée Borrel, Sonia Olschanezky, Vera Leigh and Diana Rowden. Two of these women were a part of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and the other two were a part of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. All four were sent by the SOE for French resistance efforts. Thought to be spies of the Allied Powers, the Nazi regime detained them and eventually imprisoned them in the Natzweiler Camp. There, these women were allegedly inhumanely killed by lethal injection and then cremated without a previous trial regarding the execution. Major Bill Barkworth of the SAS and Vera Atkins of the SOE were in charge of the prosecution. Under Article 29 of the Hague Convention of 1907 the women were not considered spies because of their purpose to obtain intelligence openly for communicating to their own army. Also, they were not wearing disguises when captured by the SS. Article 30 states that no spy can be punished until a trial has been completed. All of the accused were officials at the Natzweiler Camp except for Franz Berg who was imprisoned at the camp and worked the oven in the crematory. Horst Kopkow was the head of counterintelligence and was responsible for all SOE agents captured in France at the time. Kopkow was never tried because he had not yet been captured at the time of the investigation. By 1946 he was captured in British custody and was thought to be dead of bronchial pneumonia. In 1948 the Allies realised that he was sent to aid in Counterintelligence efforts against the Soviets for uses in the Cold War. Fritz Hartjenstein was the Kommandant of the Natzweiler Camp and claimed that he was not present at the camp during the time of the executions and stated he had no idea that they were given the lethal injections.