Editing Heinz Reinefarth (section)

==Postwar==
After World War II, the Polish communist authorities demanded Reinefarth's [[extradition]]. However, the British and American authorities of occupied West Germany repeatedly refused extraditing him on grounds of security reasons. Reinefarth had by then secretly been recruited by the CIC, the Intelligence Service of the US Army, for consultation on Soviet military tactics.<ref>National Archives, RG 319, IRR Personal Files, File Heinz Reinefarth</ref> After Nuremberg trials, he was arrested for war crimes, but the local court in [[Hamburg]] released him shortly afterwards on the grounds of lack of evidence.<ref name="preventgenocide">{{cite web | url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/punish/domestic/ | title=Paragraph §220a (genocide) of Germany's Strafgesetzbuch | publisher=Prevent Genocide International | work=Genocide and international crimes in domestic courts. Chapter: Germany | year=2013 | access-date=2013-05-20 | author=PGI}}</ref> Reinefarth went on to live a normal life. In December 1951, he was elected mayor of the town of [[Westerland, Germany|Westerland]], the main town on the island of [[Sylt]]. 
[[File:Gedenktafel Warschauer Aufstand am Rathaus Westerland.jpg|thumb| Memorial plaque commemorating the Warsaw Uprising at Westerland Town Hall on Sylt (inaugurated in 2014) ]]
In 1962, he was elected to the parliament (''[[Landtag]]'') of [[Schleswig-Holstein]].<ref name="Epstein">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Caa4rl8SHHwC&q=%22Reinefarth+evaded+justice.%22&pg=PA338 | title=Model Nazi | publisher=Oxford University Press | work=Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland | date=Mar 22, 2012 | access-date=May 26, 2013 | author=Catherine Epstein | page=338 | format=Google Books | isbn=978-0199646531}}</ref> After his term ended in 1967, he worked as a lawyer. Despite numerous demands by [[Communist]] Poland, he was not extradited as the German courts had ruled that there was no evidence of him committing any crimes. He was considered not guilty in the eyes of the law and the federal government. He received a general's pension upon retirement.<ref name="Zasada">Marcin Zasada (2009-07-31), [http://www.polskatimes.pl/artykul/147513,syn-warszawskiej-niobe,id,t.html ''Syn Warszawskiej Niobe'' (The son of Warsaw ''Niobe'').] ''Polska: Magazyn'', pp. 1–5. Polskapresse 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2013.</ref> He died on 7 May 1979 in his mansion on Sylt.