Horrible EXECUTION of Hans Frank - NAZI Governor of Occupied Poland known as "The Butcher of Poland". In 1929 Hitler appointed Hans Frank, who rose to become his personal legal adviser, the head of the legal department of the Nazi Party. As the Nazis rose to power, Frank also served as the party's lawyer representing it in over 2,400 cases.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power in January 1933. In April of the same year, Frank was appointed Minister of Justice for Bavaria, serving until December 1934 when he was named a Reichsminister without portfolio in the Reich government. On 2 June 1933, he was made a Reichsleiter in charge of Legal Affairs, the second highest political rank in the Nazi Party. On 26 June 1933, Frank founded the Academy for German Law. At its inaugural meeting on 2 October 1933, he was named its Leader and in August 1934 he was renamed its President.
The Academy was charged with promoting reform of German legal life by working in liaison with legislative bodies to implement the National Socialist program in the fields of law and economics.
Hans Frank also served as the Chairman of the Academy's Legal Philosophy Committee and was editor of its several publications. In January 1934, Frank was named as one of the three judges on the Supreme Party Court which was an internal Nazi Party tribunal that was established by Adolf Hitler in 1925 to settle intra-party problems and disputes.
Hans Frank objected to extrajudicial killings as it weakened the power of the legal system both at the Dachau concentration camp and during the "Night of the Long Knives". Frank's view of what the judicial process required was that: “ The judge's role is to safeguard the concrete order of the racial community, to eliminate dangerous elements, to prosecute all acts harmful to the community, and to arbitrate in disagreements between members of the community. The Nazi ideology, especially as expressed in the Party programme and in the speeches of our Leader, is the basis for interpreting legal sources.”
At a lecture on National Socialist legal policy in Rome in April 1936, Frank met Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, with whom he soon developed a cordial relationship, not least because he was able to talk to him without an interpreter. At the end of September 1936, Frank traveled to Rome again to bring Mussolini Hitler's invitation to visit Germany and was Mussolini's personal advisor on this visit.
The second world war began on the 1st of September, 1939 with the invasion of Poland.
Poland found itself fighting a two front war when it was invaded by the Soviet Union from the east on the 17th of September. Warsaw officially surrendered to the Germans on the 28th of September and one day later in accordance with the secret protocol to their non-aggression pact, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland.
They divided Poland into thirds, the western third annexed to Germany, the eastern third annexed to the Soviet Union, and the middle third turned into a semi-independent administrative unit, called the General Government of which Hans Frank was appointed governor-general by Adolf Hitler himself. The reason was that his Führer knew that Frank would not make any difficulties.
Frank described the policy which he intended to put into effect by stating: " Poland shall be treated like a colony, the Poles will become the slaves of the Greater German World Empire."
He was the most important administrator in the region but he was not free to govern as he pleased as the racial policies carried out in the General Government were the responsibility of the SS and the police. Frank did not oppose these goals, but he hated others infringing on his domain. When Hans Frank asked Himmler, the head of the SS, what he was doing there, when the SS was building the first concentration camp, Himmler told him: “it’s none of your business!”.
Hitler meant for the General Government to be used as a "racial dumping ground," an endless supply of slave labor, and a site for the mass extermination of European Jewry.
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