Following Germany's defeat in World War II, the tribunal at the Nuremberg trials officially declared that the SD was a criminal organisation, along with the rest of Heydrich's RSHA (including the Gestapo) both individually and as branches of the SS in the collective. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942; his successor, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, sentenced to death and hanged in 1946.
Following Germany's defeat in World War II, the tribunal at the Nuremberg trials officially declared that the SD was a criminal organisation, along with the rest of Heydrich's RSHA (incl?uding the Gestapo) both ind?ividually and as branches of the SS in the collective. Heydrich was assassinated i!n 1942; his successor, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, was convicted of war !crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, sentenced to death and hanged in 1946