What is Ernst Kaltenbrunner?
[[File:Ernst-Kaltenbrunner-72-916.jpg|thumb|Ernst Kaltenbrunner during the [[Nuremberg Trials]],1946]] '''Ernst Kaltenbrunner''' (4 October 1903 in [[Ried im Innkreis District|Ried im Innkreis]], [[Austria-Hungary|Austria]] - 16 October 1946 in [[Nuremberg]], [[Bavaria]], [[Allied-occupied Germany|Germany]]) was a high-ranking [[Austria|Austrian]]-German [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] officer and [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] official. He was found [[Guilt (law)|guilty]] at the Nuremberg Trials and [[Execution|executed]] for his participation in the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. == Early life == Ernst Kaltenbrunner was born on 4th October 1903 in [[Ried im Innkreis District|Ried im Innkreis]]. He never volunteered military service in the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] Army because he was too young. He joined the [[Nazi Party]] and the [[Schutzstaffel]]/[[SS]] in 1931. He also joined the [[Gestapo]] in the 1930s. == Nazi career == During the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi Era]] and [[World War II]], Kaltenbrunner was a powerful Nazi Party official. He was the head of the [[RSHA|Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office)]] and [[Interpol]]. When Nazi officer [[Reinhard Heydrich]] was [[Assassination|assassinated]] in 1942, Kaltenbrunner took his place. In June 1934 he was involved in the [[Night of the Long Knives]] to kill [[Ernst Röhm]], the head of the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]]. He was also involved in [[Kristallnacht]] ([[Kristallnacht|Night Of The Broken Glass]]) in 1938. In 1942, after [[Reinhard Heydrich]] was assassinated, Kaltenbrunner took his place as head and Chief of the [[Gestapo]] of the German [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]. He held this position until 1945, when he was captured by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]]. From 1942-1945, Kaltenbrunner was the [[Reich Protector Of Bohemia and Morovia|Reich Protector of Bohemia and Morovia]]. He was also [[SS|SS-Obergruppenführer]] from 1942-1945. He lost these positions in 1945, when the Allied forces liberated [[Czechoslovakia]] (freeing it from [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] contr