biography
| name: |
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
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pronunciation:
[kaltenbruner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–46)
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| biography:
| Nazi leader, born in Ried im Innkreis, N Austria. He studied at Prague, joined the Nazi Party (1932), and became leader of the Austrian SS (1935). He agreed with Himmler on the establishment of gas-chambers for execution (1942), became head of the SD (Security Service), the intelligence branch of the SS (1943), and was instrumental in the deportation of millions of Jews, as well as Catholic and Protestant dissidents, communists, and Rom (gypsies) to their deaths in concentration camps. He was also responsible for orders sanctioning the murder of prisoners of war. He was condemned by the Nuremberg Tribunal and hanged. |
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