German Nazi Party politician (1877–1946)
He authored the Nuremberg Laws and ran the ministry that built the legal scaffolding of the Nazi state — then watched the SS eclipse him and strip his power while he stayed in the cabinet as decoration.
Wilhelm Frick was born 12 March 1877 and came up through Munich's criminal police, where in 1923 he joined Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch, earned a treason conviction, and slipped imprisonment. By 1930 he had become the first Nazi to hold a ministerial post anywhere in Germany, running Thuringia's Interior Ministry. When Hitler took power in 1933, Frick became Reich Minister of the Interior and spent the next decade drafting the laws that fused the regime together and codified its racial doctrine, the Nuremberg Laws chief among them. Appointed to Hitler's six-man war cabinet in August 1939, he seem…
Sourced, dated quotes from Wilhelm Frick
Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.
It was sad. It's war. Many others died, too. It's war.
I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars.
Long live eternal Germany!
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