Editing Matías Krüger Aranda (section)

== Arrest and conviction ==

Following [[Eef Paap]]'s death on 24 November 2024, Krüger Aranda remained at his technical training office in Georgetown. Orders from Allgemeine SS headquarters stopped arriving, and he sent the remaining trainees home.

The Allgemeine SS was dissolved on 30 November 2024 following the collapse of the Tanoa Einsatzgruppen. Its offices in Georgetown were closed and personnel records were secured.<ref name="ss-dissolution"/> Krüger Aranda surrendered to resistance forces taking control of the offices and was detained for questioning about his SS service and his work for Snubable Shrankenhaus.

During the investigation in 2025, prosecutors recovered correspondence from 2017 showing that he had received advance notice that the armored vehicles he approved would support an operation targeting civilians in Slatina. He was charged with aiding crimes against humanity and knowing membership in the criminal Allgemeine SS.

Krüger Aranda acknowledged having approved the vehicles' technical drawings but denied knowing that the operation would involve mass killings.

The Georgetown Tribunal tried him in mid-2025. Prosecutors presented the recovered correspondence and his technical approval records. The judges found that Krüger Aranda knew civilians would be targeted but continued approving the fittings needed for the deployment. They rejected his argument that he had not anticipated the number of people who would be killed.

He was convicted on both charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The tribunal did not find that he had commanded Aktion Shrankenhaus.