What happened?

At the Nuremberg Trials, Kaltenbrunner was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war-crimes and crimes against humanity.

Due to his tight control over the RSHA, Kaltenbrunner was held directly responsible for the following crimes:

-Mass murders of civilians of occupied countries by Einsatzgruppen

-Screening of prisoner of war camps and executing racial and political undesirables

-The taking of recaptured prisoners of war to concentration camps, where in some cases they were executed