Via radio broadcasting Dr. Joseph Goebbels (Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda) informs the German nation about the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the German attack on the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941.

Momentous address

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (*October 4, 1903 in Ried i. Innkreis/Austria, +October 16, 1946 in Nuremberg). Doctorated jurist, senior NS official and Chief of the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt = Reich Main Security Office). Being one of the 24 major defendants during the Nuremberg Trials Kaltenbrunner (nicknamed &quot;scarface&quot; by the guard personnel) was found guilty of war-crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death and executed on October 16, 1946.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the RSHA

Rudolf Hess and others at Heinrich Himmler's "Building and Planning in the East" March 1941 Exhibition