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==Post-war== Arrested by the Americans after the end of the war in Europe, he was released in May 1948 after being considered an unimportant Nazi official.{{sfn|Hamilton|1984|p=266}} Esser then went into hiding only to be re-arrested in 1949 by the West German Police.{{sfn|Hamilton|1984|p=266}} Charged under the new [[West Germany]] anti-Nazification laws, he was found guilty of being a "major offender" and sentenced to five years hard labour with a loss of civil rights for life. He was released from custody in 1952.{{sfn|Hamilton|1984|p=266}} In 1980, Bavaria's [[Minister-president#Germany|Minister President]] [[Franz Josef Strauร]] congratulated Esser on his 80th birthday.<ref>Anna Rosmus: Hitlers Nibelungen, Samples Grafenau 2015, p. 33</ref> Esser died in [[Dietramszell]], [[Bavaria]] aged 80 on 7 February 1981.{{sfn|Hamilton|1984|p=266}}
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