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Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

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Hans Frank
Age: 46 †
Born: 1900
Born: May 23
Died: 1946
Died: October 16
Lawyer
Politician
Hans Michael Frank
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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.
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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.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole.
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I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.
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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
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Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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War is not a thing one wants.
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I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters.
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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.
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In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
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I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right.
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I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.
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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.
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My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
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