By M. Housden
ISBN-10: 0230503098
ISBN-13: 9780230503090
ISBN-10: 1403915792
ISBN-13: 9781403915795
At the outbreak of WWII Hans Frank used to be appointed governor basic of Poland. Heinrich Himmler was once liable for the extermination camps and Frank claimed he didn't discover the mass killings until eventually overdue within the warfare. Frank was once captured in might 1945 and was once accused of crimes opposed to humanity on the Nuremberg battle Crimes Trial. He acknowledged at his trial: "I myself have by no means put in an extermination camp for Jews, or promoted the lifestyles of such camps; but when Adolf Hitler in my view has laid that dreadful accountability on his humans, then it's mine too, for now we have fought opposed to Jewry for years; and now we have indulged within the so much terrible utterances." Hans Frank used to be discovered responsible and finished on October 1, 1946. This scholarly learn from Martyn Housden examines Frank's profession and intricate personality to shed gentle upon the Lebensraum undertaking within the East and the conducting of the ultimate answer.
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Educational qualification was no barrier. To explain this link would merit a complete study in its own right. 134 Put simply, once submerged in a racist milieu which secured him success, Hans Frank’s desire for self-aggrandisement turned into contempt for at least some of his fellow men. This leaves us with a moral. 135 Frank’s drift to anti-Semitism exemplifies something similar. Under the ‘right’ circumstances, able and educated individuals can show a depressingly poor attachment to humanitarian values.
Speaking to students in 1931 he re-iterated Hitler’s line that National Socialism was about ideological revolution. He questioned why it was increasingly acceptable for academics to discuss Marxism but not völkisch thought. Why had a nameless lecturer been allowed to liken the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to the Treaty of Versailles? Where were the academics when the Dawes and Young plans were being formulated? 120 A police report of 1931 described him as a ‘demagogic and hateful speaker’. On one occasion he had proposed that Germany should stretch from the Brenner Pass to the North Sea.
Tension across the city was heightened the next day by the presence of a ‘White Guard’ near Dachau. At night Frank could hear gunfire from that direction. From 18 April the entries in the diary become erratic. Little was said until June. The impression is of too much happening to permit a pause for thought. The next entry recorded that Hoffmann’s government troops arrived in Munich on 1 May and freed the city from Bolshevik terror after two days of heavy street fighting. 53 On 17 July, he said he was finished with school once and for all.
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