Hans Frank

Hans Frank was born in Karlsrule, Germany on 23rd May, 1900. Frank joined the National Social German Workers Party (NSDAP) and took part in Beer Hall Putsch. Afterwards he trained as a lawyer and became leagal advisor of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP. In 1930 he was elected to the Reichstag. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 he appointed Frank as Minister of Justice in Bavaria.

On the outbreak of the Second World War Frank was appointed as Govenor General of Poland. Heinrich Himmler was responsible for the extremination camps but Frank said he did not become aware of the mass killings until late in the war. Frank was captured in May 1945 and was accused of war crimes against humanity at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial.

He said at his trial he admitted his guilt for the Holocaust: "I myself have never installed an extremination camp for Jews, or promoted the existence of such camps; but if Adolf Hitler personnally 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 utterences." Hans Frank was found guilty and executed on 1st October, 1946.

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