On 14 April 1944 the People's Court sentenced Emilie Tolnay to death. Comrade activists who received the same sentence included , and . The charge on which they were convicted was the usual one of "preparing to commit high treason and favouring the enemy" ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat und Feindbegünstigung"). Anton Tolnay received a ten-year jail term (but was released a year later when the régime collapsed). On 5 July 1944 Emilie Tolnay was executed on the guillotine which had been moved into the complex in 1938, shortly after the German take-over.