Ernst Kaltenbrunner Quotes
Please report to RF SS and to the Fuehrer that all arrangements against Jews, political and concentration camp internees in the Protectorate have been taken care of by me personally today.
Kaltenbrunner was one of the major war criminals declared guilty at the Nuremberg Trials and hanged. In this message he reported that he personally saw to the murder of Italian Jews and political prisoners in custody. As his defense, he claimed that he was just following orders, and he personally did not kill anyone.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 1903-1946, German Nazi Director of Intelligence, Radio message to Gruppenführer Fegelein Hq. of the Führer through Sturmbannfuehrer Sansoni, Berlin.
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Eichmann had been responsible for the logistics of murdering most of the over 6 million civilians in WWII. With the aid of pro Nazis in South America he had been hiding there from the allies and justice. Israeli agents located him, kidnapped him, and transported him to Israel where he was tried and hung for crimes against humanity.
See Talaat Bey {40621} for a similar twisted logic.
The Nazis had started vicious persecution of Jews in Germany. In the early days of irrational anti-Semitism and Nazism he preached against the irrational Nazi propaganda – See {638920}. However, when it became clear that the Nazis had the upper hand, he publicly recognized the Nazi government as legitimate, required Catholic clergy to remain loyal to the Nazi government, and maintained bridges between fascism and the Church He then became silent on the terrible, inhuman, un-Christian treatment of the Jews concentrating his efforts on negotiating the best for the Catholics that he could get. See {639129}.
The assassination was attempted in 1944 and after its failure, he was shot be a firing squad.
The non-violent resistance tactics of the White Rose were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
Ironically Germany and almost all Germans have repudiated the Nazi era and atrocities against the Jews and others. However, the Arabs many of whom were Nazi WWII allies still hold and spew false and dangerous Nazi propaganda. See {584354} for some of the earlier Arab Nazi activity.
He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler
Funk was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. He was released for ill health shortly before he died.
The allies—mostly under American Pressure—only tried the highest ranking Nazi war criminals. Many wanted to try the rest, but they did not prevail. Lord Russell, the English prosecutor at Nuremburg resigned in protest as he had case files on over 100,000 Nazi war criminals who were never prosecuted. The main object was to use those officials to establish a strong anti-Communist government in post war Germany.
There was a German anti-Semitic movement then to expel the Old Testament and everything that related to the Jewish People out of Christianity. In the early days of irrational anti-Semitism and Nazism he was one of the few who preached against the hateful Nazi propaganda. – See {638919}. However, when it became clear that the Nazis had the upper hand, he publicly recognized the Nazi government as legitimate, required Catholic clergy to remain loyal to the Nazi government, and maintained bridges between fascism and the Church He then became intimidated and became silent on the terrible inhuman, un-Christian treatment of the Jews concentrating his efforts on negotiating the best for the Catholics that he could get. See {639129}.
Earlier in the Nazi movement he had criticized some of the more absurd anti-Semitic positions of Hitler and his henchmen. However, when it became clear that the Nazis had the upper hand he publicly recognized the Nazi government as legitimate, required Catholic clergy to remain loyal to the Nazi government, and maintained bridges between fascism and the Church while over 6 million Jews, Gypsies, and handicapped were murdered—many by his faithful.
He was a viscious anti-Semite who attracted to his party extreme right wingers, Nazi Sympathers and apologists for the Vichey Franch government. The party was rejected by the majority of French voters, but when his daughter took over the party, she was not an anti Semite but foudn it hard to shake the party's image which was alaysa associated with her name even when she actually kicked her father out of the party.
This classic quote illustrates how rapidly things can change. A decade later most German Jews either emigrated or were murdered.
He was an intellectual precursor of the Nazi movement. He was also one of Hitler's favorite authors. See {77545}.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. He was Chief of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo, and SD, from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.
