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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

 

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner in Parade vor dem Burgtheater, 29.1.1939

 

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War Criminals: "Guilty Men" 1945 Army-Navy Screen Magazine #79 World War II Nuremburg Trials

Biography

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Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz commandant, testifying at the Nuremberg trial, April 15, 1946

 

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Statement of Nuremberg defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Aug. 31, 1946, Day 216 (translated captions)

 

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Nuremberg Day 16: Kaltenbrunner Plea

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. An Obergruppenführer (general) in the Schutzstaffel (SS), between January 1943 and May 1945 he held the offices of Chief of the Reich Main Security Office. He was the highest-ranking member of the SS to face trial at the first Nuremberg trials. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and executed.