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presentation. Reference will be made to three or four
other documents contained in the document book an the Gestapo and the
SD.
During the past 3 court days, the Tribunal has heard evidence of the
criminality of the SS, the SD, and the Gestapo. The fusion of these
organizations into the shock formations of the Hitler Police State has
been explained from an organizational standpoint. There is before the
Tribunal a defendant who represents these organizations through the
official positions which he held in the SS and the German Police and
whose career gives added significance to this unity-of the SS and the
Nazi Police. The name of this defendant is Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
I now offer Document 2938-PS as exhibit next in order, Exhibit Number
USA-511. This is an article which appeared in Die Deutsche Polizei,
the magazine of the Security Police and SD, on 15 May 1943, at Page 193,
entitled, "Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the New Chief of the Security
Police and SD;" and I quote the beginning of the article:
"SS Gruppenführer Dr. Ernst
Kaltenbrunner was born the son of the lawyer Dr. Hugo Kaltenbrunner,
on 4 October 1903, at Ried, in the Inn Kreis, near Braunau. He spent
his youth in the native district of the Führer with which his
kinsfolk, originally a hereditary scythe-making clan, had been closely
connected since olden times. Later he moved with his parents to the
little market town of Raab, and then to Linz, on the Danube, where he
attended the State Realgymnasium, and there he passed his final
examination in 1921."
The
next paragraph describes Kaltenbrunner's legal education, his
nationalistic activities, and his opposition to Catholic-Christian
Social student groups. It states that after 1928 Kaltenbrunner worked as
a lawyer candidate in Linz. The article continues; and I quote, reading
the third paragraph:
"As early as January 1934 Dr.
Kaltenbrunner was jailed by the Dollfuss Government on account of his
Nazi views and sent with other leading National Socialists into the
concentration camp Kaisersteinbruch. He caused and led a hunger strike
and forced the government to dismiss 490 National Socialist prisoners.
In the following year he was jailed again, because of suspicion of
high treason, and committed to the court martial of Wels (Upper
Danube). After an investigation of many months, the accusation of high
treason collapsed; but he was sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment for
subversive activities. After the spring of 1935, Dr. Kaltenbrunner was
the leader of the Austrian SS, the right to practice his profession
having been suspended because of