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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.
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.
I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.
Oppression is the essence of power.
Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.
There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.