Jodl's Nuremberg verdict was controversial in U.S. military circles and on February 28, 1953, a West German court in Munich posthumously acquitted him of all charges. His property, confiscated in 1946, was returned to his widow. However, yielding to U.S. pressure, the Bavarian government recanted the court's judgment; on September 3, 1953, the Bavarian state minister of "political liberation" overturned the earlier revocation of the Nuremberg judgment.