Knowledge Bank

Medium: Lithograph.

Print Image Size: 34 x 22 7/8 inches.

Print Edition: no edition.

Alternate Medium: Lithograph.

Ink(s): black.

Support: grey wove paper.

Bust-length portrait of Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Director of the German Reich Main Security Office. Text at the bottom reads "Ernst Kaltenbrunner, born 1903, hanged 1946. Austrian lawyer, joined Nazis in 1932. After Anschluss [he] was made SS Major General, Reichstag member, and Head of Security. In 1943 he succeed[ed] Heydrich as Head of the Gestapo, Criminal Police, and SS Security. Administered concentration camps and [the] Final Solution. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes."