Search results
- Under Frank’s administration, hundreds of thousands of Poles were murdered, their belongings confiscated and about one million Polish labourers were deported to Germany for the benefit of the armaments industry. Apart from that, he organised the removal of the Polish Jews to the ghettos in the run up to the Holocaust.
People also ask
What did Hans Frank do during WW2?
How did Germans retaliate against Poles?
Who is Hans Frank?
What does Hans-Dieter Frank mean?
Did Poles help Jews?
When did Hans Frank die?
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 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 · An enthusiastic proponent of Nazi racist ideology, Frank ordered the execution of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the wholesale confiscation of Polish property, the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Polish workers who were shipped to Germany, and the herding of most of Poland’s Jews into ghettos as a prelude to their extermination.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A 2018 Polish law imposed up to three years imprisonment for Poles and foreigners who claim that “the Polish Nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes ...
The orders of the German occupation authorities, in particular the ordinance of General Governor Hans Frank of 15 October 1941, provided for the death penalty for any Pole who gave shelter to a Jew or helped him in any other way.
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.
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.
