Shortly after his transfer to Brünn he was arrested, sent back to Auschwitz, and jailed in Block 11. Accused of “Race Defilement” and theft, Palitzsch was sentenced to death, but reprieved and instead dismissed from the SS in November 1944 and sent to a penal unit. His later fate is unclear; he is said to have fallen in action on 7 December 1944 possibly at the battle of Budapest.