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Horrible Execution of Ernst Kaltenbrunner - Fanatical NAZI Anti-Semite & Heydrich's Successor. Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born on the 4th of October 1903. From mid-1935 Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS regional section in Linz and was considered a leader of the Austrian SS.
To provide Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich with new information, Kaltenbrunner repeatedly made trips to Bavaria. He would hide on a train and on a ship that traveled to Passau, then return with money and orders for Austrian comrades.
Also through these activities Kaltenbrunner helped bringing about the Anschluss with Germany which became reality in the spring of 1938 when Adolf Hitler annexed the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich.
The Anschluss took place over three days between the 11th and 13th of March 1938. The Anschluss was supported by many Austrians who saw it as a political, social, and cultural reunification with their brother country, Germany. Thousands turned out to greet Adolf Hitler, the native son who was returning to his homeland. For Austria’s approximately 200,000 Jews, the Anschluss marked a terrible turning point. Beginning on the night of the 11th of March and in the weeks that followed, there was pogrom-like violence across the country. Austrian Nazis and others beat up, attacked, and humiliated the Jews. They forced Jews to scrub the streets, clean public toilets and perform humiliating exercises. Many decided to try to leave Austria and lines appeared at consulates across the city of Vienna. When Hitler returned home to Berlin, he was greeted as a hero.
The Anschluss was the Nazi German regime’s first act of territorial aggression and expansion.
Even though the leaders of the West saw the Anschluss as an invasion, not one government made a move to stop Hitler who, without interference, felt free to embark upon the next step in his scheme to conquer all of Europe.
In his position Kaltenbrunner helped to establish Mauthausen which was the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Austria following the Anschluss.
Mauthausen and its subcamps were the concentration camps with the harshest imprisonment conditions and the highest mortality.
Kaltenbrunner inspected the camp on a few occasions.
On the 11th of September 1938, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, appointed him Higher SS and Police Leader and put the entire SS and police in the annexed Austria under his command. However, Kaltenbrunner felt left out, since he often felt ignored in his competences by the SS leadership around Reinhard Heydrich.
The Second World War began on the 1st of September, 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. On the 27th of the same month, Heinrich Himmler established a new agency - Reich Security Main Office - which formalized the relationship between the intelligence service - the SD - and the Security Police, which consisted of the Gestapo and the KRIPO, which was the Criminal Police. This new agency, led by Himmler’s deputy, Reinhard Heydrich, was an ideologically radical and brutal institution responsible for coordinating and perpetrating many aspects of the Holoca
In October 1943, Kaltenbrunner told Herbert Kappler, the head of German police and security services in Rome, that the "eradication of the Jews in Italy" was of "special interest" for "general security". Four days later, Kappler's SS and police units began rounding up and deporting Jews by train to Auschwitz concentration camp. 7,680 out of 44,500 Italian Jews perished during the Holocaust.
On the 20th of July 1944, after a failed bomb attempt to assassinate Hitler on his airplane, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters. This operation was originally designed to militarily combat potential civil unrest in Germany and the conspirators modified the plan for their own aims, with the intention of taking control of German cities, disarming the SS, and arresting key Nazi leaders in the wake of the plot.
Immediately in the wake of the 20th of July Plot, Kaltenbrunner was summoned to Hitler's wartime Wolf's Lair to begin the investigation into who had planned the assassination attempt.
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