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Hans Frank
German
Public Servant
About the author
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,
German
Public Servant
#Nature
#Development
#Laws
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,
German
Public Servant
#Government
#Police
#Discipline
On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#Law
#Party
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#First
My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#War
#Justice
#Effort
#Harm
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#Dream
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,
German
Public Servant
#Idea
#Legal
The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#Events
In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
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,
German
Public Servant
#Teaching
#College
#Legal
#Party
#Workers
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,
German
Public Servant
#Problems
#Questions
#Decisions
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,
German
Public Servant
#American
#Events
#Army
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,
German
Public Servant
#Years
#Questions
#Interest
#Legal
#Struggle
#Victory
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,
German
Public Servant
#State
#First
#Justice
#states
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#Nothing
#Police
An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#Police
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#Will
#Years
#Guilt
#Germany
War is not a thing one wants.
Hans Frank,
German
Public Servant
#War
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,
German
Public Servant
#People
#Country
#Man
#Order
#Greatness
#Victory
#Fanaticism