D. CONCLUSION.
Kaltenbrunner was a life-long fanatical Nazi. He was the leader of the SS in Austria prior to the Anschluss and played a leading role in the betrayal of his native country to the Nazi conspirators. As Higher SS and Police Leader in Austria after the Anschluss he supervised and had knowledge of the activities of the Gestapo and the SD in Austria. He had much to do with developing Mauthausen concentration camp and visited it frequently. On at least one occasion he observed the gas chamber in action. With this knowledge and background he accepted in January 1943 appointment as chief of the very agencies which sent such victims to their deaths. He held that office to the end, rising to high prominence in the conspiracy, receiving honors from Hitler and gaining Hitler’s personal confidence.
LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ERNST KALTENBRUNNER
| Document | Description | Vol. | Page |
| Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6. | I | 5 | |
| International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H); Appendix A. | I | 29, 59 | |
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| Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. | |||
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| *526-PS | Top secret notice, 10 May 1943, concerning saboteurs captured and shot in Norway. (USA 502) | III | 434 |
| 532-PS | Telegram of WFSt, 24 June 1944, concerning treatment of Commandos. | III | 437 |
| *701-PS | Letter from Minister of Justice to Prosecutors, 1 April 1943, concerning Poles and Jews who are released from Penal institutions of Department of Justice. (USA 497) | III | 510 |
| 745-PS | Letter from Chief of SD, Koblenz, 12 June 1944, concerning enemy aviators who have been shot down. | III | 543 |
| *835-PS | Letter from OKW to the German Armistice Commission, 2 September 1944, concerning the status of political prisoners. (USA 527) | III | 602 |
| *1061-PS | Official report of Stroop, SS and Police Leader of Warsaw, on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. (USA 275) | III | 718 |
| *1063-A-PS | Order of Chief of SIPO and SD, 2 January 1941, concerning classification of concentration camps. (USA 492) | III | 775 |
| 1063-B-PS | Letter signed by Kaltenbrunner, 26 July 1943, concerning establishment of Labor Reformatory camps. (USA 492) | III | 777 |
| *1104-PS | Memorandum, 21 November 1941, enclosing copies of report concerning anti-Jewish action in Minsk. (USA 483) | III | 783 |
| *1276-PS | Top secret letter from Chief of SIPO and SD to OKW/WFSt, 17 June 1944, concerning Commando operations. (USA 525) | III | 855 |
| *1514-PS | Order, 27 July 1944, from 6th Corps Area Command concerning delivery of prisoners of war to secret state police. (USA 491) | IV | 53 |
| 1574-PS | Warrant, 19 January 1944, for protective custody. | IV | 114 |
| *1650-PS | Directive to State Police Directorates from Chief of SIPO and SD by Mueller, 4 March 1944, concerning captured escaped PWs except British and American PWs. (USA 246) | IV | 158 |
| *1815-PS | Documents on RSHA meeting concerning the study and treatment of church politics. (USA 510) | IV | 415 |
| *1919-PS | Himmler’s speech to SS Gruppenfuehrers, 4 October 1943. (USA 170) | IV | 558 |
| *2239-PS | File of orders sent by AMT IV, RSHA, Prague, to Gestapo office Darmstadt, signed Kaltenbrunner. (USA 520) | IV | 920 |
| 2375-PS | Affidavit of Rudolf Mildner, 16 November 1945, concerning activities of SIPO and SD. | V | 2 |
| 2476-PS | Affidavit of Josef Buehler, 4 November 1945. | V | 228 |
| *2477-PS | Affidavit of Willy Litzenberg, 4 November 1945. (USA 518) | V | 229 |
| *2519-PS | Undated memorandum for radio message from Kaltenbrunner to Fegelein, concerning arrangements against Jews. (USA 530) | V | 256 |
| *2580-PS | Protective custody decrees signed Kaltenbrunner. (USA 524) | V | 305 |
| *2582-PS | Telegrams ordering protective custody signed by Kaltenbrunner. (USA 523) | V | 307 |
| *2605-PS | Affidavit of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, former President of the Hungarian Zionist Organization, 13 September 1945. (USA 242) | V | 313 |
| *2620-PS | Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 5 November 1945. (USA 919) | V | 341 |
| 2622-PS | Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 5 November 1945. | V | 343 |
| *2641-PS | Affidavit of Alois Hoellriegl in connection with photographs of Kaltenbrunner, Himmler, and others at Mauthausen concentration camp. (USA 516) | V | 354 |
| 2644-PS | Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 5 November 1945. | V | 357 |
| *2745-PS | Order for commitment to concentration camp, 7 July 1943, Kaltenbrunner’s signature. (USA 519) | V | 383 |
| 2752-PS | Affidavit of Willy Litzenberg, 8 November 1945. | V | 392 |
| *2753-PS | Affidavit of Alois Hoellriegl, 7 November 1945. (USA 515) | V | 393 |
| 2770-PS | War Decorations, published in Order Gazette of the Chief of Security Police and SD, Edition A, 5th year, 9 December 1944, No. 51. | V | 417 |
| 2890-PS | Extracts from Befehlsblatt of the Sipo and SD. | V | 557 |
| 2892-PS | Biographical information on Ernst Kaltenbrunner, published in the Greater German Reichstag, 1938. | V | 561 |
| *2938-PS | Article in The German Police, Number 10, Berlin, 15 May 1943, p. 193, concerning Kaltenbrunner. (USA 511) | V | 605 |
| *2939-PS | Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 17 November 1945. (USA 513) | V | 606 |
| *2990-PS | Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 18 November 1945. (USA 526) | V | 694 |
| *2992-PS | Affidavits of Hermann Graebe. (USA 494) | V | 696 |
| *3012-PS | Order signed Christiansen, 19 March 1943, to all group leaders of Security Service, and record of telephone conversation signed by Stapj, 11 March 1943. (USA 190) | V | 731 |
| 3361-PS | Message to all Commanders of Security Police from Kaltenbrunner regarding arrest of Plant Directors. | VI | 96 |
| *3427-PS | Announcement of Kaltenbrunner appointed Chief of Security Police and SD, in German Police, 15 February 1943. (USA 512) | VI | 130 |
| *3462-PS | Interrogation of Bertus Gerdes, 20 November 1945. (USA 528) | VI | 161 |
| *3723-PS | Testimony of Gottlieb Berger, 20 September 1945. (USA 529) | VI | 460 |
| *3762-PS | Affidavit of SS Colonel Kurt Becher, 8 March 1946, concerning the responsibility of Kaltenbrunner for concentration camp executions. (USA 798) | VI | 645 |
| *3803-PS | Covering letter enclosing a letter from Kaltenbrunner dated 30 June 1944, concerning forced labor of Jews in Vienna. (USA 802) | VI | 737 |
| 3838-PS | Statement of Martin Sandberger, 19 November 1945, concerning Kaltenbrunner’s treatment of prisoners. (USA 800) | VI | 773 |
| *3839-PS | Statement of Josef Spacil, 9 November 1945, concerning the meaning of “resettlement” and “special treatment”. (USA 799) | VI | 774 |
| *3840-PS | Statement of Karl Kaleske, 24 February 1946, concerning the elimination of the Warsaw Ghetto. (USA 803) | VI | 775 |
| *3841-PS | Statement of SS and Polizeifuehrer Juergen Stroop, 24 February 1946, concerning elimination of the Warsaw Ghetto. (USA 804) | VI | 776 |
| *3842-PS | Statement of Fritz Mundhenke, 7 March 1946, concerning the activities of Kaltenbrunner and SS in preparation for occupation of Czechoslovakia. (USA 805) | VI | 778 |
| *3844-PS | Statement of Josef Niedermayer, 7 March 1946, concerning Kaltenbrunner’s part in “bullet” orders at Mauthausen concentration camp. (USA 801) | VI | 782 |
| *3846-PS | Interrogation of Johann Kanduth, 30 November 1945, concerning crematorium at Mauthausen and the activities of Kaltenbrunner there. (USA 796) | VI | 783 |
| *3868-PS | Affidavit of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess, 5 April 1946, concerning execution of 3,000,000 people at Auschwitz Extermination Center. (USA 819) | VI | 787 |
| *3870-PS | Affidavit of Hans Marsalek, 8 April 1946, concerning Mauthausen Concentration Camp and dying statement of Franz Ziereis, the Commandant. (USA 797) | VI | 790 |
| D-46 | Order designating Herzogenbosch as concentration camp, 18 January 1943. | VI | 1025 |
| D-50 | Order establishing concentration camps at Lublin, 9 April 1943. | VI | 1027 |
| *D-473 | Letter from Kaltenbrunner to Criminal Public Offices, 4 December 1944, concerning combatting of crime among Polish and Soviet-Russian civilian laborers. (USA 522) | VII | 64 |
| L-5 | Order of Military Commander Southeast, 3 September 1944. | VII | 755 |
| *L-18 | Official report, Katzmann to General of Police Krueger, 30 June 1943, concerning “Solution of Jewish Question in Galicia”. (USA 277) | VII | 755 |
| L-31 | Communique of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Investigating the Crimes committed by the Germans in the Majdanek Extermination Camp in Lublin. | VII | 772 |
| L-34 | Affidavits of Edmund Trinkl, Chairman of Amt I A 6 of the RSHA, 2 August 1945. | VII | 774 |
| L-35 | Affidavit of Rudolf Mildner, 1 August 1945. | VII | 780 |
| *L-37 | Letter from Illmer, Chief of the SIPO and SD of Radom, to subordinates, 19 July 1944, concerning collective responsibility of members of families of assassins and saboteurs. (USA 506) | VII | 782 |
| *L-38 | Affidavit of Hermann Pister, 1 August 1945. (USA 517) | VII | 783 |
| L-41 | Orders of Mueller, Chief of the Gestapo, 17 December 1942 and 23 March 1943, concerning transfer of workers to concentration camps. (USA 496) | VII | 784 |
| *L-49 | Affidavit of Otto Hoffman, Chief of SS Main Office for Race and Settlement, 4 August 1945. (USA 473) | VII | 795 |
| *L-50 | Affidavit of Kurt Lindow, Director of Office for Criminal affairs in RSHA, 2 August 1945. (USA 793) | VII | 796 |
| *L-51 | Affidavit of Adolf Zutter, 2 August 1945. (USA 521) | VII | 798 |
| *L-53 | Order from Commandant of the SIPO and SD for the Radom District to Branch Office in Tomaschow, 21 July 1944, on clearance of prisons. (USA 291) | VII | 814 |
| *L-158 | Circular letter from SIPO and SD Commander of Radom District, 28 March 1944, concerning measures to be taken against escaped officers and non-commissioned officer PWs. (USA 514) | VII | 906 |
| *L-215 | File of orders and dossiers of 25 Luxembourgers committed to concentration camps at various times in 1944. (USA 243) | VII | 1045 |
| *L-219 | Organization plan of the RSHA as of 1 October 1943. (USA 479) | VII | 1053 |
| *L-358 | Extract from register of arrests by Gestapo in Poland, 1943. (USA 495) | VII | 1107 |
| *R-110 | Himmler order of 10 August 1943 to all Senior Executive SS and Police officers. (USA 333) | VII | 1107 |
| *R-135 | Letter to Rosenberg enclosing secret reports from Kube on German atrocities in the East, 18 June 1943, found in Himmler’s personal files. (USA 289) | VIII | 205 |
| Affidavit B | Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 3 January 1946. | VIII | 596 |
| Affidavit C | Affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny, 29 November 1945, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 3 January 1946. | VIII | 606 |
| Affidavit D | Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 23 January 1946, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 4 January 1946. | VIII | 622 |
| Affidavit E | Affidavit of Alois Hoellriegl, 22 November 1945, substantially the same as his testimony on direct examination before the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg 4 January 1946. | VIII | 630 |
| *Chart No. 1 | National Socialist German Workers’ Party. (2903-PS; USA 2) | VIII | 770 |
| *Chart No. 3 | Organization of the SS. (USA 445) | VIII | 772 |
| *Chart No. 5 | Position of Kaltenbrunner and the Gestapo and SD in the German Police System. (USA 493) | VIII | 774 |
| *Chart No. 19 | Organization of the Security Police (Gestapo and Kripo) and the SD 1943-1945. (2346-PS; USA 480) | End of VIII | |
7. ALFRED ROSENBERG
A. THE POLITICAL CAREER OF ROSENBERG.
The political career of Alfred Rosenberg embraced the entire history of National Socialism and permeated nearly every phase of the conspiracy. In order to obtain a full conception of his influence upon and participation in the conspiracy, it is necessary to review his political history and to consider each of his political activities in their relation to the thread of the conspiracy, which stretches from the inception of the party in 1919 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
It is interesting to note that for Rosenberg the 30th of November 1918 marked the
“Beginning of political activities with a lecture about the ‘Jewish Problem’ ”. (2886-PS)