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1 day ago · After Heydrich (who was staunchly anti-Catholic and anti-Christian) was assassinated in Prague, his successor, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, relaxed some of the policies and then disbanded Department IVB (religious opponents) of the Gestapo.
15 hours ago · On October 14, 1944, Hitler sent two generals to Herlingen, a suburb of Ulm, where Rommel was recovering, and gave him the choice of dying by suicide or facing a show trial, which would result in his execution. Advertisement. In order to save his family, Rommel took cyanide.
1 day ago · Kaltenbrunner, however, was an extremely high ranking officer, having been the head of the Nazi equivalent of the CIA and the President of the Interpol. The Nazis did not select their leaders based on IQ, but based on the usual traits that tend to be selected for in organizations: loyalty, competence, social accumen, and personal connections.
2 days ago · On 12 March 1945, ICRC president Jacob Burckhardt received a message from SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner allowing ICRC delegates to visit the concentration camps. This agreement was bound by the condition that these delegates would have to stay in the camps until the end of the war.
3 days ago · After Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933, Hess was appointed Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party in April. He was elected to the Reichstag in the March elections, was made a Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party in June and in December 1933 he became Minister without Portfolio in Hitler's cabinet. [7]
4 days ago · Der Oberösterreicher Ernst Kaltenbrunner, im Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher 1946 zum Tode verurteilt und hingerichtet, wurde zum SS-Brigadeführer befördert und Führer des SS-Oberabschnittes Österreich.
4 days ago · This opposition found its focus in the SA and its leader in the SA chief of staff, Ernst Röhm. From the summer of 1933 to the summer of 1934, this question of the so-called “second revolution” formed the dominant issue in German politics.
