
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian lawyer, high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era, major perpetrator of the Holocaust, and convicted war criminal. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was named the third director of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, serving from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe. He was also the president of Interpol during the same time period.
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- Educated at
- University of GrazQ1502625Bundesrealgymnasium Linz Fadingerstraße
- Awards
- 🏆 Reichsführer-SS🏆 Nazi Party Long Service Award🏆 Anschluss Medal🏆 Honour Chevron for the Old Guard🏆 Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross in Gold without Swords
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Trending topics shown first"Where do you think I was today? I stood straight in front of him for a whole hour and talked, and he... he played with a puzzle the whole time – you know, this glass cube with three balls on the insid…"
"You haven't come to see me for three weeks. I wondered whether you had become disgusted with us war criminals - particularly me, the so-called archcriminal of them all."
"I know only that in my belief in Adolf Hitler I put all my strength at the disposal of my people. As a German soldier I could only put myself at the service of the defense against those destructive fo…"
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1903
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Birth1946
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