Hans Frank Quotes

• War is not a thing one wants.

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

• 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 National Socialist movement.

  Hans Frank

• In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

• 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 about such problems.

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

• 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.

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

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

  Hans Frank

Hans Frank (19)

Birth:	23rd May, 1900
Death:	16th October, 1946
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Hans Michael Frank was born in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany. He was a German lawyer and politician who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Hitler's personal lawyer. After the invasion of Poland, he became Nazi Germany's chief jurist in the occupied Poland "General Government" territory. He graduated from high school at the renowned Maximilians gymnasium in Munich, and age of seventeen, joined the German army fighting in World War I, barely reaching front line combat.

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