Hans Frank

German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900–1946)

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Lived 1900–1946, aged 46Germany
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    1900–1946
    Aged 46
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Summary
Updated 2026-08-27

Hitler's personal lawyer turned mass murderer. As Governor-General of occupied Poland, he oversaw the killing of over four million people and ran four extermination camps.

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Born in Karlsruhe in 1900, Frank joined the German Workers' Party early and took part in the failed Beer Hall Putsch. He became Adolf Hitler's personal legal adviser and the Nazi Party's lawyer, rising to Reichsleiter in June 1933 and joining the Hitler Cabinet as a minister without portfolio in December 1934. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he was appointed Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories. There he instituted a reign of terror, became directly involved in the mass murder of Jews, engaged in the use of forced labour, and oversaw four extermination camps. He rem…

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Hans Frank
said
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.
To Leon Goldensohn, March 5, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Hans Frank
said
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
Hans Frank
said
I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone.
To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Hans Frank
said
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
Hans Frank
said
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.
Speech on the need to exterminate the Poles, January 25, 1943, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 439 - by Eugene Davidson -
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