Wilhelm Frick

German Nazi Party politician (1877-1946) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 69

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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.

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1946Died16 October 1946“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.”In their words10 March 1946To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007Read the whole statement

“It was sad. It's war. Many others died, too. It's war.”In their words10 March 1946About the death of his son, to Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007Read the whole statement

“I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars.”In their words10 March 1946To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007Read the whole statement

1877Born12 March 1877

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Adolf Hitler m.fl. i München, 1924

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00344, München, nach Hitler-Ludendorff Prozess

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00344A, München, nach Hitler-Ludendorff Prozess retouched

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00344A, München, nach Hitler-Ludendorff Prozess

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10543, Weimar, Aufmarsch der Nationalsozialisten

1931 Nazi Party event rally salute (cropped)

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Wilhelm Frick

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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.
Mar 10, 1946, To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007, Own words
It was sad. It's war. Many others died, too. It's war.
Mar 10, 1946, About the death of his son, to Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007, Own words
I am skeptical about preventing wars. I doubt if they can be prevented. There will always be wars.
Mar 10, 1946, To Leon Goldensohn, March 10, 1946, "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn - History - 2007, Own words

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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 seemed entrenched - but the rise of Himmler and the SS gutted his standing, and in 1943 he was shoved aside, kept on as minister without portfolio until the collapse. He was tried at Nuremberg, convicted of war crimes, and hanged 16 October 1946.

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Germany

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