Uncovering Kaltenbrunner’s secret missions - Three days that changed Austrian history - video Dailymotion

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He was the man who ruled Nazi Germany’s internal empire of fear. As Chief of the Reich Security Main Office, Ernst Kaltenbrunner controlled the Gestapo, Criminal Police, and SS Security Service, enforcing Hitler’s will through mass arrests, deportations, and executions. A devoted Austrian Nazi and successor to Reinhard Heydrich, he oversaw the expansion of the Final Solution and the destruction of European Jewry. Captured in the Austrian Alps after the fall of the Third Reich, Kaltenbrunner stood before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg — the highest-ranking SS officer to face judgment. Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, he was hanged in 1946. This documentary reveals how the man who once commanded the Nazi state’s most feared security institutions rose to absolute power — and met his final reckoning on the gallows.  🎥 Watch the full documentary on WorldHistory.tv  “The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany’s Security Chief: Ernst Kaltenbrunner”  🔗 Link in bio & comments 👇  #WW2History #Anschluss #AustrianHistory #ErnstKaltenbrunner #Documentary

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00:00Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS regional section in Linz and was considered a leader of the

00:05Austrian SS. To provide Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich with new information,

00:10Kaltenbrunner repeatedly made trips to Bavaria. He would hide on a train and on a ship that traveled

00:16to Passau, then return with money and orders for Austrian comrades. Also, through these activities,

00:23Kaltenbrunner helped bringing about the Anschluss with Germany, which became reality in the spring

00:27of 1938 when Adolf Hitler annexed the federal state of Austria into the German Reich. The Anschluss

00:34took place over three days between the 11th and 13th of March 1938.

Uncovering Kaltenbrunner’s secret missions - Three days that changed Austrian history

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