Exiled after the war, he was captured and handed over by the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo, to the Spanish State of Francisco Franco, who had him executed by firing squad in 1940.
I mërguar pas luftës, ai u kap dhe u dorëzua nga policia sekrete naziste, Gestapoja, te diktatori spanjoll Franko, i cili e ekzekutoi atë me pushkatim në vitin 1940.