One
of the 12 Nazi Leaders sentenced to die by hanging in the Nuremberg Trials,
Hans Frank, touched my heart when I read his last words. Despite being an evil
person, he embraced his childhood religion of Roman Catholicism and he repented
before his hanging. I forgive him for what he did and hope that he will enjoy
himself in paradise. I will post the information about him from Wikipedia.
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| Hans Frank |
Governor-General
of the General Government
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In
office
26 October 1939 – January 1945 |
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Personal
details
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Born
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Hans Michael Frank
23 May 1900 Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany |
Died
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16 October 1946 (aged 46)
Nuremberg, Germany |
Nationality
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German
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Political party
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National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
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Spouse(s)
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Brigitte Herbst (married 1925)
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Religion
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Roman Catholic
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Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German lawyer who
worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s. After Hitler's accession
to power in 1933, Frank became Nazi Germany's chief jurist and Governor-General
of occupied Poland's 'General Government' territory. During his tenure
(1939–1945), he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population,
systematic plunder and brutal economic exploitation and became directly
involved in the mass murder of Polish citizens of both Jewish and non-Jewish
background. At the Nuremberg trials, he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes
against humanity and was executed.
Pre-war career
Frank
was born in Karlsruhe to Karl Frank, a lawyer, and his wife, Magdalena (née
Buchmaier). He had an older brother, Karl Jr., and a younger sister, Elisabeth.
He joined the German army in 1917, during World War I. After the war he served
in the Freikorps under Franz Ritter von Epp's command, and then joined
the German Worker's Party (which soon evolved into NSDAP), in 1919. He was one
of the party's earliest members.
Frank
studied law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become Adolf
Hitler's personal legal adviser. As the Nazis rose to power, Frank also served
as the party's lawyer. He represented it in over 2,400 cases and spent over
$10,000. This sometimes brought him into conflict with other lawyers. One, a
former teacher, appealed to him: "I beg you to leave these people alone!
No good will come of it! Political movements that begin in the criminal courts
will end in the criminal courts!" In September–October 1930, Frank served
as the defence lawyer at the court-martial in Leipzig of Lieutenants Richard
Scheringer, Hans Friedrich Wendt and Hanns Ludin, three Reichswehr
officers charged with membership in the NSDAP. The trial was a media sensation.
Hitler himself testified and the defence successfully put the Weimar Republic
itself on trial. Many Army officers developed a sympathetic view of the
National Socialist movement as a consequence.
Frank
was elected to the Reichstag in 1930, and in 1933 he was made Minister of
Justice for Bavaria. From 1933, he was also the head of the National Socialist
Jurists Association and President of the Academy of German Law. Frank objected
to extrajudicial killings as it weakened the power of the legal system (of
which he himself was a promient member), both at the Dachau concentration camp
and during the Night of the Long Knives.
Frank's
view of what the judicial process required should not be exaggerated:
[The judge's] role is to safeguard the concrete order of the racial community, to eliminate dangerous elements, to prosecute all acts harmful to the community, and to arbitrate in disagreements between members of the community. The National Socialist ideology, especially as expressed in the Party programme and in the speeches of our Leader, is the basis for interpreting legal sources.
From
1934, Frank was Reich Minister
Without Portfolio.
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Ruler of occupied Poland
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Wartime career
Main
articles: General Government and General Government administration
In
September 1939 Frank was assigned as Chief of Administration to Gerd von
Rundstedt in the German military administration in occupied Poland. From 26
October 1939, following the end of the invasion of Poland, Frank was assigned
Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories (Generalgouverneur für
die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), controlling the General Government, the
area of Poland not directly incorporated into Germany (roughly 90,000 km²
out of the 187,000 km² Germany had gained). He was also granted the SS
rank of Obergruppenführer.
Frank
oversaw the segregation of the Jews into ghettos and the use of Polish
civilians as "forced and compulsory" labour. In 1942 he lost his
positions of authority outside the General Government after annoying Hitler
with a series of speeches in Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg, and Munich and also as
part of a power struggle with Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger, the State Secretary for
Security – head of the SS and the police in the General Government. Krüger
himself was ultimately replaced with Wilhelm Koppe.
On
16 December 1941, Frank spelt out to his senior officials the approaching
annihilation of the Jews:
"A great Jewish migration will begin in any case. But what should we do with the Jews? Do you think they will be settled in Ostland, in villages? We were told in Berlin, 'Why all this bother? We can do nothing with them either in Ostland or in the Reichskommissariat. So liquidate them yourselves.' Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourself of all feelings of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and whenever it is possible."
When
this was read to him at the Nuremberg trials he said:
"One has to take the diary as a whole. You can not go through 43 volumes and pick out single sentences and separate them from their context. I would like to say here that I do not want to argue or quibble about individual phrases. It was a wild and stormy period filled with terrible passions, and when a whole country is on fire and a life and death struggle is going on, such words may easily be used... Some of the words are terrible. I myself must admit that I was shocked at many of the words which I had used.
An
assassination attempt by Polish Secret State on 29/30 January 1944 (the night
preceding the 11th anniversary of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany)
in Szarów near Krakow failed. A special train with Frank traveling to Lviv was
derailed after an explosive device discharged but no one was killed.
The
General Government was the location of four of the six extermination camps.
Frank later claimed that the extermination of Jews was entirely controlled by Heinrich
Himmler and the SS and that he, Frank, was unaware of the extermination camps
in the General Government until early in 1944. During his testimony at
Nuremberg, Frank claimed he submitted resignation requests to Hitler on 14 occasions,
but Hitler would not allow him to resign. Frank fled the General Government in
January 1945 as the Soviet Army advanced.
Chess
Hans
Frank took an avid interest in chess. He not only possessed an extensive
library of chess literature but was also a good player. He received the
Ukrainian chess grandmaster Efim Bogoljubow at Wawel castle. Frank was a patron
of General Government chess tournaments (1940–1944). On 3 November 1940 he
organized a chess congress in Krakow. Six months later he announced the
establishment of a chess school under Bogoljubow and the World Chess Champion,
Dr. Alexander Alekhine, and he visited a chess tournament in October 1942 at
the "Literary Café" in Krakow.
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Frank (center, wearing
a glove after an unsuccessful suicide attempt shortly after his arrest) at the
Nuremberg trial, with Alfred Jodl and Alfred Rosenberg
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Capture and trial
Frank
was captured by American troops on 3 May 1945, at Tegernsee in southern Bavaria.
He was manhandled and beaten, walking the gauntlet of American soldiers, and
because of that, he tried to cut his own throat; two days later, he lacerated
his left arm while attempting to slit his wrists in a second unsuccessful
suicide attempt. He was indicted for war crimes and tried before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg
from 20 November 1945 to 1 October 1946. During the trial he renewed the faith
of his childhood, Roman Catholicism, and claimed to have a series of religious
experiences.
Frank
voluntarily surrendered 43 volumes of his personal diaries to the Allies, which
were then used against him as evidence of his guilt. Frank confessed to some of
the charges and expressed remorse on the witness stand, showing penitence for
his crimes. On the witness stand, he said, "after having heard the
testimony of, the witness Höss, my conscience does not allow me to throw the
responsibility solely on these minor people. I myself have never installed an
extermination camp for Jews, or promoted the existence of such camps; but if
Adolf Hitler personally has laid that dreadful responsibility on his people,
then it is mine too, for we have fought against Jewry for years; and we have
indulged in the most horrible utterances." He and Albert Speer were
allegedly the only defendants to show remorse for their war crimes. At the same
time he accused the Allies, especially the Soviets, of their own wartime
atrocities. The former Governor-General of Poland was found guilty of war
crimes and crimes against humanity on 1 October 1946, and was sentenced to
death by hanging. Frank viewed his sentence as a form of atonement for his sins.
The
death sentence was carried out on 16 October by Master Sergeant John C. Woods.
Journalist Howard K. Smith
wrote of the execution:
Hans Frank was next in the parade of death. He was the only one of the condemned to enter the chamber with a smile on his countenance. And, although nervous and swallowing frequently, this man, who was converted to Roman Catholicism after his arrest, gave the appearance of being relieved at the prospect of atoning for his evil deeds.
He
answered to his name quietly and when asked for any last statement, he replied "I am thankful for the kind treatment during my
captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy."
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Defendant Hans Frank,
the former Governor General of the Polish occupied territories, in his cell at
the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. (24
November 1945)
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The body of Hans Frank
after being hanged, Oct. 16, 1946
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Memoirs
While
awaiting execution, he wrote his memoirs. In the capacity as his attorney,
Frank was privy to personal details of Hitler's life. In his memoirs, written
shortly before his execution, Frank made the sensational claim that Hitler had
commissioned him to investigate Hitler's family in 1930 after a "blackmail
letter" had been received from Hitler's nephew, William Patrick Hitler,
who allegedly threatened to reveal embarrassing facts about his uncle's
ancestry. Frank said that the investigation uncovered evidence that Maria
Schicklgruber, Hitler's paternal grandmother, had been working as a cook in the
household of a Jewish man named Leopold Frankenberger before she gave birth to
Hitler's father, Alois, out of wedlock. Frank claimed that he had obtained from
a relative of Hitler's by marriage a collection of letters between Maria
Schicklgruber and a member of the Frankenberger family that discussed a stipend
for her after she left the family's employ. According to Frank, Hitler told him
that the letters did not prove that the Frankenberger son was his grandfather
but rather his grandmother had merely extorted money from Frankenberger by
threatening to claim his paternity of her illegitimate child. Frank accepted
this explanation, but added that it was still just possible that Hitler had
some Jewish ancestry. But he thought it unlikely because, "...from his
entire demeanor, the fact that Adolf Hitler had no Jewish blood coursing
through his veins seems so clearly evident that nothing more need be said on
this."
Given
that all Jews had been expelled from the province of Styria (which includes
Graz) in the 15th century and were not allowed to return until the 1860s,
scholars such as Ian Kershaw and Brigitte Hamann dismiss as baseless the
Frankenberger hypothesis, which before had only Frank's speculation to support
it. There is no evidence outside of Frank's statements for the existence of a
"Leopold Frankenberger" living in Graz in the 1830s, and Frank's
story is notably inaccurate on several points such as the claim that Maria
Schicklgruber came from "Leonding near Linz", when in fact she came
from the hamlet of Strones near the village of Döllersheim. Some suggest that
Frank (who turned against National Socialism after 1945 but remained an
anti-Semitic fanatic) made the claim that Hitler had Jewish ancestry as way of
proving that Hitler was really a "Jew" and not an "Aryan";
and in this way, "proved" that the Third Reich's crimes were the work
of the "Jewish" Hitler. The full anti-Semitic implications of Frank's
story were borne out in a letter entitled "Was Hitler a Jew?",
written to the editor of a Saudi newspaper in 1982 by a German man living in
Saudi Arabia. The writer accepted Frank's story as the truth, and added since
Hitler was a Jew, "the Jews should pay Germans reparations for the War,
because one of theirs caused the destruction of Germany". But
American author Ron Rosenbaum suggested another reason for Frank's story:
"On the other hand, a different version of Frank emerges in the brilliantly vicious, utterly unforgiving portrait of him by his son, Niklas Frank, who (in a memoir called In the Shadow of the Reich) depicts his father as a craven coward and weakling, but one not without a kind of animal cunning, an instinct for lying, insinuation, self-aggrandizement. For this Hans Frank, disgraced and facing death on the gallows for following Hitler, fabricating such a story might be a cunning way of ensuring his place in history as the one man who gave the world the hidden key to the mystery of Hitler's psyche. While at the same time, revenging himself on his former master for having led him to this end by foisting a sordid and humiliating explanation of Hitler on him for all posterity. In any case, it was one Frank knew the victors would find seductive".
Family
On
2 April 1925 Frank married 29-year-old secretary Brigitte Frank (1895–1959)
from Forst (Lausitz). The wedding took place in Munich and the couple
honeymooned in Venetia. Hans and Brigitte Frank had five children:
- Sigrid Frank (born 13 March 1927, Munich - d. in South Africa)
- Norman Frank (born 3 June 1928, Munich - d. 2010)
- Brigitte Frank (born 13 January 1935, Munich – 1981)
- Michael Frank (born 15 February 1937, Munich – 1990)
- Niklas Frank (born 9 March 1939, Munich)
Brigitte
Frank had a reputation for having a more dominant personality than her husband:
after 1939 she called herself "a queen of Poland" ("Königin
von Polen"). The marriage was unhappy and became colder from year to
year. When Frank sought a divorce in 1942, Brigitte gave everything to save
their marriage in order to remain the "First Lady in the General
Government". One of her most famous comments was "I'd rather be
widowed than divorced from a Reichsminister!" Frank answered: "So you
are my deadly enemy!"
In
1987, Niklas Frank wrote a book about his father, Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung
("The Father: A Settling of Accounts"), which was published in
English in 1991 as In the Shadow of the Reich. The book, which was
serialized in the magazine Stern, caused controversy in Germany because
of the scathing way in which the younger Frank depicted his father: Niklas
referred to him as "a slime-hole of a Hitler fanatic" and questioned
his remorse before his execution.
Niklas
is the sole living child of Hans and Brigitte Frank. Sigrid remained a
committed Nazi who emigrated to South Africa during the apartheid regime and
died there. Brigitte committed suicide in 1981; Michael and Norman died in 1990
and 2010, respectively.
In literature
Curzio
Malaparte, an Italian writer who during the war also served as a reservist
Italian army officer, and unofficial diplomat because of his ties with Germany,
wrote extensively in his 1944 opus "Kaputt!" on Frank and the
convivial dinners the Governor held in his mansions outside Warsaw and Cracow
for Malaparte and other guests. He also mentions that Frank was a capable piano
player.
Quotations
In
a 1940 interview in the Völkischer Beobachter:
In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that
seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a
poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be
sufficient to manufacture the paper.'
A thousand years will pass and still Germany's guilt will not have
been erased.
There is still one statement of mine which I must rectify. On the
witness stand I said that a thousand years would not suffice to erase the guilt
brought upon our people because of Hitler's conduct in this war. Every possible
guilt incurred by our nation has already been, completely wiped out today, not
only by the conduct of our war-time enemies towards our nation and its
soldiers, which has been carefully kept out of this Trial, but also by the
tremendous mass crimes of the most frightful sort which-as I have now
learned-have been and still are being committed against Germans by Russians,
Poles, and Czechs, especially in East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, and
Sudetenland. Who shall ever judge these crimes against the German people?"
INTERNET SOURCE: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hans_Frank
- I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
- Last words, 10/16/46, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 565 - by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002
- Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
- To Dr. G. M. Gilbert, after receiving the death sentence, quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995
- This war would be only a partial success if the whole lot of Jewry survived it, while we shed our best blood to save Europe. My attitude toward the Jews will therefore be based solely on the expectation that they must disappear. They must be done away with. Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourself of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible.
- Speech at a meeting with soldiers, December 1941, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 438 - by Eugene Davidson - 1997
- We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.
- Speech on the need to exterminate the Poles, January 25, 1943, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 439 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
- If the authority of the National-Socialist Reich is to be upheld, then it is unacceptable that representatives of the Reich should be obliged to meet Jews when they enter or leave the house, and are in this way liable to infection with epidemics. I therefore intend to clear the city of Cracow, the seat of the Governor-General of the General Government, of Jews, as far as at all possible, by November 1, 1940. There will be a major operation to move the Jews, on the grounds that it is absolutely intolerable that thousands upon thousands of Jews should go slinking around and occupy apartments in the city which the Führer has granted the great honor of becoming the seat of a high Reich Authority...
- April 12, 1940, from "Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews" - Page 197 - by Yitzhak Arad, Israel Gutman, Abraham Margaliot, Lea Ben Dor, Steven T. Katz - 1999
- Let me tell you quite frankly: in one way or another we will have to finish with the Jews. The führer once expressed it as follows: should Jewry once again succeed in inciting a world war, the bloodletting could not be limited to the peoples they drove to war but the Jews themselves would be done for in Europe. If the Jewish tribe survives the war in Europe while we sacrifice our blood for the preservation of Europe, this war will be but a partial success. Basically, I must presume, therefore, that the Jews will disappear. To that end I have started negotiations to expel them to the east. In any case, there will be a great Jewish migration. But what is to become of the Jews? Do you think that they will be settled in villages in the conquered eastern territories? In Berlin we have been told not to complicate matters: since neither these territories, nor our own, have any use for them, we should liquidate them ourselves! Gentlemen, I must ask you to remain unmoved by pleas for pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we encounter them and wherever possible, in order to maintain the overall mastery of the Reich here... For us the Jews are also exceptionally damaging because they are being such gluttons. There are an estimated 2.5 million Jews in the General Government, perhaps. 3.5 million. These 3.5 million Jews, we cannot shoot them, nor can we poison them. Even so, we can take steps which in some way or other will pave the way for their destruction, notably in connection with the grand measures to be discussed in the Reich. The General Government must become just as judenfrei (free of Jews) as the Reich!
- To senior members of his administration, December 16, 1941, quoted in "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: the final solution in history" - Page 302 - by Arno J. Mayer - History - 1988
- I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.
- To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
- To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.
- To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
- To Leon Goldensohn, March 5, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- All these things are still apparent today. You Americans can see for yourselves how impossible it is to feed the German people from the German soil itself. From the viewpoint of a historian, one can say that Hitler never would have arisen if the Allies had not treated Germany so poorly. Justice Jackson said so himself. Today things are more impossible than ever. The East has been taken away from Germany - in other words, hunger created Hitler, and paradoxically, Hitler created still greater hunger.
- To Leon Goldensohn, March 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
- To Leon Goldensohn, March 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 29
- I feel that I am obligated to my people - that is not pessimism. If I tried to prove that I was innocent, it would be the same as trying to prove that the German people are guilty. Only one innocent man sits in that dock - and that man is the symbol of the German people. An epoch with such happenings as the murder of 5 million Jews, the projective extermination of millions of Slavs - such an epoch must close up definitely once and for all. It cannot go dragging on and on. Those of us who are guilty must pay the price and set the German people free, no longer to be blamed for our stupidity.
- To Leon Goldensohn, March 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- You can't indict a government and its organizations as criminal. The conception of the Reich government is a hundred years old. The general staff is several hundreds of years old. The case of the SS is another matter, because it was started with the party and by the party. But it's quite impossible to indict or convict an organization as criminal if it has in its membership millions of innocent people.
- To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.
- To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 37
- I think of these things frequently, because I know the German people. Among them might arise the legend of Hitler, because Hitler was not heard from in this trial. Time always has some reconciling effect. On every ruin there eventually grows grass, and then some shrubbery, and finally, before you realize it, what is really an old hideous ruin becomes a romantic sight and legend.
- To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 36
- I think that Hitler was abnormal in his sexual needs. That is, he needed too little from the opposite sex. He considered women as objects of beauty, and he often talked with affection about his own mother. I obtained the impression that he disliked his father, because he never mentioned him. But it is a bad thing if a man has too little Eros in him. It makes him insensitive, and probably leads to cruelty. Freud, Sigmund Freud, the last of the great German psychiatrists, who died in England, pointed out the relationship between frustrated love and cruelty. I believe it is what you psychiatrists term sadism. I'm convinced that a man who does not need the love of a woman, and thinks he can forgo it, or who does forgo it, can turn to cruelty and sadism as a substitute.
- To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
- To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.
- To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
- A thousand years will pass and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased.
- Quoted in "After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation" - Page 448 by Giles MacDonogh - History - 2007
- Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
- Quoted in "The War Against God" - Page 3 - by Carl Lamson Carmer - Nationalism - 1943
About Frank
- Similarly, the defendant Frank was not asked decisive questions. For example, when Frank was asked what he knew of the Jewish murders, he said, 'You could smell it.' That is a complete lie and a dishonesty. Frank could not only smell it, he knew about it. There he was, the governor general of Poland - he couldn't just have smelled it, he must have known it. The rest of the trial is without any importance.
- Hans Fritzsche, to Leon Goldensohn, April 6, 1946
- A governor general of Poland who reigned but did not rule.
- The fanatical Frank, who solidified Nazi control by establishing the new order of authority without law, so that the will of the party was the only test of legality, proceeded to export his lawlessness to Poland, which he governed with the lash of Caesar and whose population he reduced to sorrowing remnants.
Nuremberg Day
31 Frank
Nuremberg
Day 111 Frank
April 18, 1946 saw Dr. Seidl call his
client, Hans Frank, Nazi lawyer and Governor General of Occupied Poland to the
stand. In this excerpt, Frank describes his principal positions in the Nazi
Party and Hitler's government.
After the Nazi defeat, Frank turned
over his elaborate diary to the Allied authorities and this diary became a
prime source of evidence in the Trial.
For further information see http://www.roberthjackson.org
Nuremberg
Day 218 Frank Judgment
On Oct. 1, 1946, Hans Frank,
Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party in charge of Legal Affairs, a Reich Minister
without Portfolio and and honorary Obergruppenfuehrer in the SA, was found
guilty on three counts and sentenced to death by hanging. For further
information, see http://www.roberthjackson.org
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