Hi Carman, Art Johnson here with a little correction for you. Wilhelm Mohnke was not the commander of the 12th SS Panzer Grenadiere Division (HJ). Major General Fritz Witt was the commander until he was killed on 14th June 1944. Kurt Myer replaced him.
Mohnke commanded the 26th SS Panzer-Grenadiere Regiment (Brigade). He returned to Berlin in 1944 to be part of Hitler's personal guard. He was captured by the Russians in 1945 and detained till 1955. Monhke returned to Germany to the small town of Barsbuttel near Hamburg and worked as a dealer in small trucks and trailers. He was still alive in 1996.
Kurt Meyer was captured by Belgian partisans on the 6th of September 1944. He was tried and convicted of War Crimes in 1945 and sentenced to death. Major General Chris Volkes the Canadian Army Commander in Germany at the time commuted the sentence to life in prison. Myer was sent to Canada and served five years in Dorchester Prison in New Brunswick. He was then returned to Germany to serve out the remainder of his time in a British Military prison. Kurt Meyer was released in 1954 and died in 1961.
Kurt Myer openly professed his loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi Party even after the war. The SOB should have been hung as should Mohnke and all those other SS types from 1933.