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The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials. Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz ...
Nov 20, 2015 · There were only 21 men sitting in the dock, as Robert Ley had committed suicide in prison, Martin Bormann was never found, and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was deemed to ill to stand trial....
Kaltenbrunner was aware of conditions in concentration camps. He had undoubtedly visited Mauthausen and witnesses testified that he had seen prisoners killed by the various methods of execution, hanging, shooting in the back of the neck and gassing, as part of a demonstration.
In the end, ten men, including Kaltenbrunner, would hang, on October 16, 1946. (Göring, ever cunning, committed suicide in his cell on the eve of the executions.)
The tribunal found him guilty on all four counts and sentenced him to death by hanging. He would commit suicide before his scheduled execution. On the Witness Stand
Sentence: Death by hanging. Kaltenbrunner, Ernst: Kaltenbrunner was chief of the Security Police, SD, and head of the RSHA, which meant he was also in charge of the Gestapo, the SD and the Criminal Police.
On 9 December 1944 the decoration known as the Knight's Cross of the War Merit, Cross with Swords, was given to SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General of the Police Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Security Police and the SD (2770- PS).
