Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (died 1946)

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Austrian SS official (1903–1946)

Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian 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 the third Chief of…