The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany’s Security Chief: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Nuremberg Trials: The Leaders of Nazi Germany
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22m
He was the man who ruled Nazi Germany’s internal empire of fear.
As Chief of the Reich Security Main Office, Ernst Kaltenbrunner controlled the Gestapo, Criminal Police, and SS Security Service, enforcing Hitler’s will through mass arrests, deportations, and executions. A devoted Austrian Nazi and successor to Reinhard Heydrich, he oversaw the expansion of the Final Solution and the destruction of European Jewry.
Captured in the Austrian Alps after the fall of the Third Reich, Kaltenbrunner stood before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg — the highest-ranking SS officer to face judgment.
Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, he was hanged in 1946.
This documentary reveals how the man who once commanded the Nazi state’s most feared security institutions rose to absolute power — and met his final reckoning on the gallows.
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