Between March 1966 and April 1967, the former commander of the security police and security service for the Bialystok district, Wilhelm Altenloh and others stood trial at the Bialystok court accused of involvement in the persecution and murder of Jews. They were charged with having organized the deportation of Jews from various ghettos to the death camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka. They were charged with murder and being accessories to murder according to the German criminal code