I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Between January 1943 and May 1945 he held the offices of Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA Reich Main Security Office) President of Interpol and as a SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS he was the highest-ranking Schutzstaffel (SS) leader to face trial at the first Nuremberg Trials. Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II.