The British Government stated that Gaughan died of pneumonia; his family insisted that he died after prison doctors injured him fatally when food lodged in a lung punctured by a force-feeding tube. (3 June 1974)
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Tuesday 8th of August 1950 (-) — SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt is executed by the firing squad. Schmitt was the only German Nazi to be executed in Belgium.