Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Framed at Nuremberg

[Chadlee Anvil Bryant]

Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Framed at Nuremberg
John Wear

Vol. 14 (2022)

No. 2
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946) was chief of the Reich Main Office for
Security (RSHA) from January 1943 until the end of World War II. In
this position, he directed the operations of the Secret State Police
(Gestapo), the Criminal Police (Kripo), and the Security Service (SD).
Of the German leaders who stood before the International Military
Tribunal (IMT) in 1945, few inspired more revulsion and contempt than
Kaltenbrunner.[1]

Telford Taylor, an American prosecutor at the IMT, described
Kaltenbrunner as a “brutish, scar-faced hulk.” Taylor wrote that
Kaltenbrunner “was the most ominous-looking man in the dock and had no
friends there.” Rebecca West wrote that he “looked like a vicious
horse.”[2] Hans Bernd Gisevius, a prosecution witness at the IMT,
testified that Kaltenbrunner had “an even more sadistic attitude than
Himmler.”[3] Author Evelyn Waugh, observing the defendants from the
spectators’ gallery, noted that “only Kaltenbrunner looked an obvious
criminal.”[4]

This article examines the life of Kaltenbrunner, and whether or not
the accusations made against him at the IMT are true.

Early Life
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born in Reid, the industrial capital of the
western part of the state of Upper Austria. Kaltenbrunner was the son
of a lawyer, and his family had achieved a degree of respect in
government, in the legal profession, and even in literature. Nothing
in his ancestral or family background hinted at his having inherited
an abnormal personality or being a social misfit. The Kaltenbrunner
family viewed themselves—and were viewed by others—as “straightforward
members of the solid middle class.”[5]

Kaltenbrunner moved to the town of Raab, Austria in 1906. He spent
seven happy years there, and later said that at Raab he “came to feel
a love for nature and an interest in the passion and joys of a simple
life.” He left his family in 1913 to attend the Realgymnasium in Linz.
Kaltenbrunner’s memories of his years in Linz were not pleasant, and
he felt deeply homesick for Raab.[6]

The end of World War I brought the Kaltenbrunner family back together
again when Kaltenbrunner’s father closed his law practice in Raab to
join a law firm in Linz. Kaltenbrunner graduated from the
Realgymnasium in Linz in 1921, and matriculated that autumn to a
technical university in Graz. After majoring in chemistry for two
years, Kaltenbrunner transferred to the university’s law school, from
which his father had graduated 25 years earlier. He completed his law
degree in July 1926.[7]

Kaltenbrunner served his mandatory first year of legal training as a
court apprentice at the Linz District Court. He moved to Salzburg
after his legal apprenticeship to take a position in a law firm, and,
in 1928, moved back to Linz to work for another law firm. On October
18, 1930, Kaltenbrunner joined the Austrian National-Socialist Party.
He became a member of the SS 10 months later in August 1931.
Kaltenbrunner told his relatives that, above all, he hoped for the
union of Austria and Germany. This was the determining factor in his
decision to join the National-Socialist Party.[8]

Austrian SS Chief
Kaltenbrunner displayed a remarkable ability to advance his career and
garner influence in the Austrian National-Socialist Party. He became
active as a district speaker in Upper Austria, and gave free legal aid
to SS men accused of criminal activities. The Austrian government
began to apply increasing pressure on the National Socialists.
Austrian authorities established several detention camps in the fall
of 1933, and Kaltenbrunner learned that he would be arrested in an
impending roundup. He quickly married his fiancé on January 14, 1934.
The next day, Kaltenbrunner was arrested and sent to a detention
camp.[9]

Kaltenbrunner and several of his fellow inmates organized a hunger
strike in April 1934 to protest the inadequate food rations, faulty
sanitation facilities and frequent mistreatment of the prisoners in
their camp. They demanded that all prisoners be released. The hunger
strike continued until Kaltenbrunner and several of his companions,
weak from hunger, were evacuated to a hospital and released. More
significant for Kaltenbrunner’s political future was the close
friendship that he established with one of his bunkmates in the
camp—the agricultural engineer Anton Reinthaller.[10]

Reinthaller convinced Kaltenbrunner that, given the political
situation in Austria, National Socialists needed to present a moderate
front. While serving as Reinthaller’s secretary, however,
Kaltenbrunner was arrested on suspicion of high treason. Kaltenbrunner
was convicted of membership in the illegal SS, sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment, and had his license to practice law revoked.
Although many SS members who were imprisoned or lost their jobs
emigrated to Germany, Kaltenbrunner stayed in Austria. He was
appointed chief of SS-Abschnitt VIII (Upper and Lower Austria) by
Heinrich Himmler in the fall of 1935.[11]

In order to report to his superiors in the SS, Kaltenbrunner
frequently bypassed the Austrian SS leader by traveling to Germany to
report directly to Himmler and other SS officers. Kaltenbrunner
impressed SS leaders not only with his political acumen, but also
through his reputation as an intelligence expert. Reflecting Himmler’s
appreciation of Kaltenbrunner’s leadership abilities, on March 21,
1938, Himmler appointed Kaltenbrunner as chief of the Austrian SS.
Kaltenbrunner was also awarded the role of state secretary for
security in the Austrian government.[12]

RSHA Chief
As chief of the Austrian SS, Kaltenbrunner conducted intelligence
operations and worked on routine police administration, transmission
of Security Police orders from Berlin to police units in Vienna,
supervision of the indoctrination of new SS recruits, and the
amalgamation of the SS and police in the SS-Oberabschnitt Donau. With
few personal connections in Germany other than Himmler, Kaltenbrunner
appeared to have reached a professional dead end. However, when RSHA
chief Reinhard Heydrich died on June 4, 1942 from wounds received in
an assassination operation carried out by Czech agents, the top spot
in the RSHA became vacant.[13]

Himmler took control of the RSHA for the first eight months after
Heydrich’s death. By early December 1942, Himmler decided to replace
himself with Kaltenbrunner. After receiving Hitler’s approval in
January 1943, Himmler summoned Kaltenbrunner to Berlin and told him to
take over management of the RSHA. Kaltenbrunner remained as head of
the RSHA until the end of the war.[14]

Himmler clearly wanted Kaltenbrunner to utilize the power that
Heydrich had held prior to Heydrich’s death. He advised Kaltenbrunner
to “reestablish the contacts that Heydrich had held in his hands.”
Kaltenbrunner had a mixed reaction to his new job. While Kaltenbrunner
liked its promise of power, excitement and intrigue, he was nervous
about suddenly being thrust into the mainstream of National-Socialist
politics. Otto Skorzeny said that Kaltenbrunner “even with all the
external splendor, did not feel quite at home there [in the
RSHA].”[15]

The German Sixth Army surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad only
three days after Kaltenbrunner became head of the RSHA. This disaster
was followed by the surrender of the German Army in North Africa on
May 7, 1943, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy in July and
September 1943.[16] These losses foretold Germany’s future defeat, and
Kaltenbrunner’s later death by hanging at Nuremberg.

Wartime Activities
Similar to Heydrich, Kaltenbrunner’s primary interests were in
military intelligence and counter-espionage. When he became head of
the RSHA on January 30, 1943, he had the firm intention of acquiring
control of the Abwehr intelligence organization headed by Adm. Wilhelm
Canaris. Kaltenbrunner had a hostile personal talk with Canaris in
Munich three weeks later. Canaris won this confrontation, and Himmler
warned Kaltenbrunner that he would not tolerate any interference in
the Abwehr.[17]

Kaltenbrunner achieved his ambition of acquiring control of the Abwehr
when it became a branch of the RSHA in February 1944. He followed
Canaris’s policy of seeking contacts with the West. Sometimes
Kaltenbrunner worked with Walter Schellenberg; other times he employed
Wilhelm Höttl, who had contacts with American OSS agent Allen Dulles.
Kaltenbrunner believed that the SS, as disposers of an army within an
army, held the best cards for bargaining with the Western Allies.[18]
Kaltenbrunner competed with several SS leaders to negotiate peace with
Western representatives.[19]

Germany’s labor supply dwindled rapidly as the war wore on. Thousands
of Poles and Soviets were put to work in factories and on farms
throughout Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and the Government
General. Kaltenbrunner issued a circular on June 30, 1943,
establishing regulations for punishing crimes committed by Poles and
Russians in Germany. The Gestapo and the Kripo were to handle all
criminal proceedings. Kaltenbrunner’s circular said the only exception
were those cases where “for reasons of general political morale a
court verdict seems desirable and where it is arranged beforehand that
the court would impose the death sentence.”[20]

Kaltenbrunner has also been criticized for his policies regarding
sexual relations between Germans and foreign laborers. He issued a
decree in February 1944 that defined sexual intercourse between
Germans and Poles, Lithuanians, Russians and Serbs as a crime subject
to prosecution by the Security Police. If the male was non-German, he
would be subject to immediate arrest, while a German male could be
prosecuted only if he had utilized his official position to force
sexual relations. Non-German females could be expected to be interned
in a concentration camp.[21]

On May 16, 1945, U.S. Army forces captured Kaltenbrunner in the
Austrian Alps. Kaltenbrunner had left his family in Austria and hidden
with several companions in a hunting lodge high in the mountains
southeast of Salzburg. A local hunter, however, betrayed him to the
U.S. Army. When U.S. Army agents brought Kaltenbrunner face to face
with his mistress, who’d born him twins six weeks earlier, she
“confirmed Kaltenbrunner’s identity by impulsively embracing him.”[22]

Nuremberg Trial
The IMT indicted six former National-Socialist organizations as
criminal, including the SS, its intelligence arm, the Security
Service, and the Gestapo. Allied prosecutors chose Kaltenbrunner to
stand trial because, in the fall of 1945, he was the highest-ranking
SS officer still alive and in custody. Kaltenbrunner’s
responsibilities linked him to the Gestapo, the Einsatzgruppen in
Russia, and the German concentration camps.[23]

The Allies transported Kaltenbrunner to Nuremberg in September 1945
after 10 weeks of imprisonment and extensive questioning in London.
The IMT served Kaltenbrunner an indictment on October 19, charging him
with perpetration of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and
participation in a conspiracy to commit such crimes. American
psychologist Dr. Gustave Gilbert, as he did with other defendants,
asked Kaltenbrunner to sign the indictment and write his view of it.
Kaltenbrunner complied, writing:[24]

“I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as
an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz [substitute
or stand-in] for Himmler.”

Dr. Gilbert said to Kaltenbrunner that most people will doubt that, as
nominal chief of the RSHA, Kaltenbrunner had nothing to do with the
concentration camps and knew nothing about the alleged German mass
murder program. Kaltenbrunner responded:[25]

“But that is because of newspaper propaganda. I told you when I saw
the newspaper headline ‘GAS CHAMBER EXPERT CAPTURED’ and an American
lieutenant explained it to me, I was pale with amazement. How can they
say such things about me? I told you I was only in charge of the
Intelligence Service from 1943 on. The British even admitted that they
tried to assassinate me because of that—not because of having anything
to do with atrocities, you can be sure of that.”

When the IMT held its first session on November 20, 1945,
Kaltenbrunner stayed in his cell, too ill to attend. Kaltenbrunner had
been rushed to the hospital two days before with a subarachnoid
hemorrhage. During the next few months, he attended court only a few
hours at a time. Hermann Göring said about Kaltenbrunner’s fitness to
stand trial, “If he’s fit, then I’m an Atlas.”[26]

Kaltenbrunner’s defense at the IMT rested on two main points. First,
he was head of the RSHA, which was charged with security, and not the
head of the WVHA, which administered the concentration camps. His only
involvement with the internal operation of the camps was his order of
March 1945, which gave permission for the Red Cross to establish
itself in the camps. Second, Kaltenbrunner said it was Heydrich who
had organized the details of the Jewish policy, whatever that policy
was. Thus, according to Kaltenbrunner, there was no respect in which
he could be held responsible for the extermination of the Jews.[27]

Kaltenbrunner’s defense strategy was his only realistic chance for
acquittal on the extermination charge. If he had testified that no
extermination program had existed, any leniency shown by the court in
the judgment would have been tantamount to the court’s conceding the
possible untruth of the extermination claim. This was a political
impossibility. By claiming that Kaltenbrunner had no responsibility
for the extermination program, and even opposed it, the defense was
making it politically possible for the court to be lenient in its
sentencing of Kaltenbrunner.[28]

The IMT judges decided Kaltenbrunner was guilty of Count Three (war
crimes) and Count Four (crimes against humanity). He was the third
defendant to be hanged. Much steadier than had been expected,
Kaltenbrunner said:[29]

“I served the German people and my fatherland with a willing heart. I
did my duty according to its laws. I am sorry that in her trying hour
she was not led only by soldiers. I regret that crimes were committed
in which I had no part. Good luck, Germany.”

Conclusion
Ernst Kaltenbrunner should not have been executed at Nuremberg. During
Kaltenbrunner’s cross examination, he was indignantly asked how he had
the nerve to pretend he was telling the truth, while 20 to 30
witnesses were lying. These witnesses did not appear in court; they
were merely names on pieces of paper.[30]

One of these witnesses was Franz Ziereis, the commandant of the
Mauthausen concentration camp. Ziereis confessed to gassing 65,000
people, and accused Kaltenbrunner of ordering everyone in the entire
Mauthausen camp to be killed upon the approach of the Americans.
Ziereis had been dead for over 10 months when he made this so-called
confession. Ziereis’s “confession” was remembered by an inmate named
Hans Marsalek, who never appeared in court, but whose signature
appeared on the document.[31]

Eyewitness statements from Ziereis and other witnesses claiming
prussic acid was streamed through shower heads into homicidal gas
chambers at Mauthausen are not credible. Germar Rudolf writes:

“Zyklon B consists of the active ingredient, hydrogen cyanide,
adsorbed on a solid carrier material (gypsum) and only released
gradually. Since it was neither a liquid nor a gas under pressure, the
hydrogen cyanide from this product could never have traveled through
narrow water pipes and shower heads. Possible showers, or fake shower
heads, could therefore only have been used to deceive the victims;
they could never have been used for the introduction of this poison
gas. There is general unanimity as to this point, no matter what else
might be in dispute.”[32]

Historian Tomaz Jardim incorrectly writes that “Mauthausen had the
infamous distinction of containing the last gas chamber to function
during the Second World War.”[33] In reality, Mauthausen never had a
homicidal gas chamber, and even many Jewish historians have
acknowledged this fact.[34]

IMT defendant Hans Fritzsche wrote:[35]

“After the excitement of the cross-examinations had died down and we
were awaiting the verdict, I tried to get to know Kaltenbrunner
better. I soon came to the conclusion that he knew far more than I
about the technique of extracting confessions during a process of
questioning, and I noticed that he himself ascribed the success of the
principal charges against him to the coercion or cajoling of the
witnesses concerned. […]

Many a novelist, I feel, could conjure up a profile of Kaltenbrunner.
But I doubt if any would depict the whole truth, for the last head of
the RSHA knew far more than he ever told.”

A version of this article was originally published in the
January/February 2022 issue of The Barnes Review.

[1] Black, Peter R., Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Ideological Soldier of
the Third Reich, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984, p.
3.
[2] Taylor, Telford, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A
Personal Memoir, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, pp. 228, 360.
[3] Ibid., p. 375.
[4] Black, Peter R., Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Ideological Soldier of
the Third Reich, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984, p.
3.
[5] Ibid., pp. 27-29.
[6] Ibid., pp. 28, 31-33.
[7] Ibid., pp. 33-34.
[8] Ibid., pp. 52-55, 61, 63.
[9] Ibid., pp. 69, 71, 74.
[10] Ibid., pp. 74-75.
[11] Ibid., pp. 78-79.
[12] Ibid., pp. 82, 94, 102, 104.
[13] Ibid., pp. 116, 127.
[14] Ibid., p. 128.
[15] Ibid., pp. 132-133.
[16] Ibid., pp. 133, 218.
[17] Reitlinger, Gerald, The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945,
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1981, p. 237.
[18] Ibid., pp. 237-238.
[19] Black, Peter R., Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Ideological Soldier of
the Third Reich, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984, p.
255.
[20] Ibid., pp. 140-141.
[21] Ibid., p. 141.
[22] McKale, Donald M., Nazis after Hitler: How Perpetrators of the
Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, Inc., 2012, p. 136.
[23] Ibid., pp. 135-136.
[24] Ibid., p. 136.
[25] Gilbert, G. M., Nuremberg Diary, New York: Farrar, Straus and
Company, 1947, p. 255.
[26] Irving, David, Nuremberg: The Last Battle, London: Focal Point
Publications, 1996, pp. 163-164.
[27] Butz, Arthur R., The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case
against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry, Newport Beach,
Cal.: Institute for Historical Review, 1993, pp. 180-181.
[28] Ibid., pp. 181-182.
[29] Taylor, Telford, The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A
Personal Memoir, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, pp. 589, 610.
[30] Porter, Carlos, Not Guilty at Nuremberg: The German Defense
Case, p. 15.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Rudolf, Germar, The Rudolf Report: Export Report on Chemical
and Technical Aspects of the ‘Gas Chambers’ of Auschwitz, 2nd edition,
Washington, D.C.: The Barnes Review, 2011, p. 220.
[33] Jardim, Tomaz, The Mauthausen Trial, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2012, p. 3.
[34] For example, see Bauer, Yehuda, A History of the Holocaust,
New York: Franklin Watts, 1982, p. 209.
[35] Fritzsche, Hans, The Sword in the Scales, London: Allan
Wingate, 1953, pp. 186-187.
Author(s): John Wear
Title: Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Framed at Nuremberg
Sources: Inconvenient History, 2022, Vol. 14, No. 2
Dates: published: 2022-05-06, first posted: 2022-05-06 08:38:58


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[Revd Terence Fformby-Smythe]

In other words, the whole thing was a jew Lie®™.
--

Die Juden sind unser Unglück.
- Heinrich Gotthard Freiherr von Treitschke (1834-1896)

[Greg Carr]

There were defendants acquitted at Nuremberg. Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche. All those found guilty were guilty as sin.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/nuremberg-trials#:~:text=Verdict%20and%20Executions,from%2010%20to%2020%20years.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Nurnberg-trials

The world would be a better place without homosexual sex acts.

The Bible and Talmud and Koran all forbid homosexual sex acts with the punishment being death. Homosexuals are only 1.7% of the CDN population and are overrepresented in the penal system, among the homeless, among the mentally ill with some ppl believing homosexuality itself is a mental illness like pedophilia and necrophilia and bestiality, among the alcoholic and drug addicted, AIDs is primarily a disease of homosexuals it costs CDN tax payers 25k a year to keep them alive. The recent rise in syphilus is caused by homosexual sex acts. Monkeypox is the vast majority of cases a gay disease. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/monkeypox/outbreak-update.html 1,435 cases of this disfiguring disease in Canada alone and it keeps rising MSM doesn't care.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 New International Version (NIV)
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men[a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

"Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable" (Leviticus 18:22) in the KJV is it is called an ABOMINATION the only word in the whole Bible to be in bold face.

"If a man lies with a man as one lies with woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads" (Leviticus 20:13).

1 TIMOTHY 1:10
KJ21 for whoremongers, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine
ASV for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
and for sexually immoral persons, for homosexuals, for kidnappers and slave traders, for liars, for perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Romans 1:26-27

Paul writes: "God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."

Jude 1:7
"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (KJV)


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Gordon Radavich is from Serbia a Slav a Untermensch.

Even Hitler looked down on slavs! LOL

"As for the ridiculous hundred million Slavs, we will mould the best
of them as we see fit, and we will isolate the rest of them in their
own pig-styes; and anyone who talks about cherishing the local
inhabitants and civilising them, goes straight off into a
concentration camp!"
Adolph Hitler, speaking about Slavic Untermensch like Gordon, 6 August
1942.

During the last century it was lamentable for those who had to witness
it, to notice how in these circles I have just mentioned the word
'Germanize' was frivolously played with, though the practice was often
well intended. I well remember how in the days of my youth this very
term used to give rise to notions which were false to an incredible
degree. Even in Pan-German circles one heard the opinion expressed
that the Austrian Germans might very well succeed in Germanizing the
Austrian Slavs, if only the Government would be ready to co-operate.
Those people did not understand that a policy of Germanization can be
carried out only as regards human beings.
-Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 2

Slavs are a mass of inborn slaves, who feel the need of a master.
-Adolph Hitler, Hitler’s Table Talk: 1941-1944

All nazis must hang.