Quotes by Hans Frank

About Hans Frank:

Hans Michael Frank was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Hitler's personal lawyer. After Hitler's ascension to power in 1933, Frank became Nazi Germany's chief jurist and Governor-General of occupied Poland's "General Government" territory. During his tenure throughout World War II (1939–45), 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. At the Nuremberg trials, he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was executed.
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I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.

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I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.

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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.

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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences ...

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In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the Nat...

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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.

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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

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The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

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War is not a thing one wants.

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Author Bio

  • NameHans Frank
  • DescriptionNazi war criminal; executed in 1946
  • BornMay 23, 1900
  • DiedOctober 16, 1946
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionLawyer; Politician