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Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, war criminal, and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War. Frank was an early member of the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party (NSDAP). He took part in the failed Beer Hall ...
Oct 12, 2024 · Hans Frank was a German politician and lawyer who served as governor-general of Poland during World War II. Frank fought in World War I, studied economics and jurisprudence, and in 1921 joined the German Workers’ Party (which became the Nazi Party). He eventually became the party’s chief legal.
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Nevertheless, following the conquest of Poland in 1939, Hans Frank was appointed Governor-General and made responsible for civil administration in the ‘vandal Gau’ as he called it. Frank treated the Poles as slaves of the Greater German Reich, to be mercilessly subordinated, exploited and wiped out as a national entity.
Hans Frank (1900–1946) was an early supporter of the Nazi Party. He studied law and eventually became personal legal advisor to Adolf Hitler. After the outbreak of World War II, Frank was appointed Governor General of occupied Poland.
Hans Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 Oct. 1946) was governor of occupied Poland (called General Government) during the war. Four of the so-called extermination camps – Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka – were on the territory he governed.
May 26, 2015 · Frank oversaw the creation of the ghettoes and the removal of Jews to these ghettoes. He initiated the arrest of the Polish upper class and Polish intellectuals regardless of their religion as he saw them as a potential threat to his authority in the General Government.
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Nov 29, 2015 · The name of Hans Frank is irrevocably tied to the crimes which have been committed by the Nazi regime in the so called General Government, the part of Poland that enveloped the largest part of Polen that was taken by the Germans in 1939.
