Hans Frank - Governor of Occupied Poland Documentary 

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Believe it or not... But i met his son Niklas Frank when he visited our school. He was very honest when it came to the crimes of his father. I respected him for that.

I enjoyed the fact that there was not a lot of annoying music playing in the background of this documentary

Frank might not have been directly involved in the day- to-day oversight of the genocide, but he was the head of state and set policy. Thank you for a well presenting and thought provoking documentary.

Fascinating documentary, thank you. Frank was a horrible person who deserves neither our pity nor our forgiveness. His youngest son has a message for people because of his dad, "Don't trust us [Germans]." He was very scarred by his father's actions and his execution, which happened when he was quite small. He carries the photo of his dad after he was hanged to remind himself to never feel sorry for him, and to remind himself of what his dad was and did.

More evidence of the way Hitler used and then betrayed his lieutenants, Frank started out as a lawyer for the party, eventually becoming a Minister of Justice, before being stripped of all his powers and sent to the worst part of Poland to become an administrator with few powers. Hitler did not seem to care for administrative types who showed anything resembling a conscience or anyone who seemed to make waves whenever he changed his mind on political matters. Ernst Rohm was a classic example. Without Rohm, the Nazis would have never come to power, but later on, he was seen as a liability and was executed without trial. Loyalty meant nothing to the Fuehrer. He wanted loyalty from everyone, but he owed them none!

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Well researched, educational and insightful. Many thanks THE PEOPLE PROFILES for sharing it with all of us. 🇨🇦

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Very revealing! Thank you for all the research and knowledge.

You're on a roll The Peoples Profiles! Yet another, amazing documentary. ❤️🙌. Thank you so much.

Very nice account. On the question posed toward the end of the video: Frank's remorse at the trial, no matter how sincere, can not obscure the fact that he enthusiastically organized the murder of over a million helpless people. God may have the capacity to forgive such a person, but humans and human institutions can not afford to.

Informative and a great time wasting experience I routinely listen to every morning. I’d love to listen to your take on telling of Empress Elizabeth, “Sissi”. Beautiful kind woman who lived a heartbreaking but interesting life.

Excellent as always. I've started directing my kids to your channel for honework and additional learning because you are so good at weaving the individual story with the wider historical context.

If Frank was truly remorseful, he should have pleaded guilty at the start of the trial and asked for an immediate sentence.

Hans Frank had been aware of the 'Final Solution' and had a significant position in the regime responsible for it. Whatever the level of remorse shown, he had participated in the genocide and was therefore correctly punished by death as a result. He was the individual responsible for the General Government from its beginning until end and whatever level of involvement in or responsibility for the extermination of millions, he could not have been expected other than to have paid the price - and the price was not just his life but the continuing association of him with the Final Solution. It's through informative records like this that enable us to individually and en-masse to maintain an awareness of guilt, direct and indirect, with this most terrible of crimes whether we are Jewish or not.

Thank You Profiles, been waiting for a good documentary on this overlooked Governor of Hell on Earth.

His Diaries are still mainly untranslated into English. He reduced rations down to 600-900 calories a day for non Germans. Which is death by any other name. The General Government was one giant Hans Frank camp.

I have to watch this later. My Mother is from the same town in Germany. During the War she lived in Krakow with her Mom & Sister until Russians approached. Her Sister worked for Hans Frank during that time (Office Work ?) Met her a few times but never asked her for details....

This was very well done. As far as Frank's fate. Many convicts show remorse and even find religion...after they are caught. His fate was just.

Another in a long line of fantastic historical programmes that this channel keeps producing, great narration and war scenes to back up the production well done! Hans Frank definitely deserved his fate.

Simply love 💕 this channel ! Informative and educational . The illustration/picture/drawing of each of the character is exceptional!

Impeccably well researched, excellent presentation and gripping narration; This is one channel with content of the highest quality. Thank you a thousand times for keeping this terrible period in human history alive.

Beats some of the rubbish on TV, in my country. Fascinating stuff (as always) Thank you. 👍 🇬🇧

Speer did NOT do Life in Prison. I believe he was sentenced to 20 years.

Really glad to tune in to this one love History.

Excellent presentation. My only issue is that I believe Frank attended the historic Wannsee Conference, managed by SS General Hydrich. This fact certainly indicts him for genocide involvement on the highest level.

Haven't watched it yet, already I can tell you put maximum effort into this video, can't wait to watch it!

A Wonderful and informative documentary, thank you!

Thank you for this video of yet another war criminal who brought to justice for his crimes. At least he owned up to his evil deeds that he had committed during WW2, but only after he was put on trial.

Excellent video. I know much of the history but did not realize Frank was so brutal and bragged about it.

Excellent! I would really appreciate a bio on the Nazi judge Roland! Haven't been able to find much about him.

This filled in a few blanks I had about Hans Frank and the Holocaust.

Another one of your wonderful documentaries. The narrator is fabulous! Many thanks for posting.

Your videos are absolutely top notch! Just discovered your channel and cannot get enough of it. I’m floored! Thank you for your hard work!

Pretty good, once again the idea that Frank felt remorse came up. I think it’s a little odd that you mentioned Sixtus O’Connor (Catholic Chaplain) here but didn’t mention Henry Gerecke (Protestant Chaplain) in your Keitel or Ribbentrop documentaries despite the fact that we know considerably more about his service at Nuremberg. Apparently shortly before execution Frank asked O’Connor if he could mark a few cross (and to tell his children he had died well for his crimes) symbols on his body like his mother did when he was a child and O’Connor obliged. Hans Frank may have felt real remorse (in part I think it was true because he willingly surrendered his diaries which were later used to prosecute him) but I agree that doesn’t mean he should have escaped his death sentence. His hanging was at least relatively clean and quick compared to Ribbentrop’s and especially Keitel’s.

Interesting and well done. One small thing - in the part referring to the post-Wall-Street crash it is said that the recession kicked in hyperinflation, leading many to lose their savings. Actually the hyperinflation concerns the immediate post-WW-I period, and not the 1930s.

A very detailed and unbiased review with an excellent narrative tone . The Pastor O'Connor may have felt he saved a soul and so be it . Who are we now to judge ? He payed for his appalling crimes on Earth the hereafter shall take care of the rest .

God is Hans Franks final judge. As of us all. Thank you for this video. Never again…..

Thank you for your hard work !

The sheer magnitude of his horrific atrocities, are beyond the reach of one's ability to fully comprehend. Neither is there any tool nor mechanism within our grasp that can bear retribution equal such monstrous atrocities.

Yes. Your effort is excellent. Yes, Frank was a horror story, and there are many pictures that can be painted to show this. One, his use of Jewish Peoples as personal slaves, gardeners etc, amidst casual murder being carried out in his presence, should these individuals act contrary to orders. So many lawyers and doctors gained rank in the SS and SD, and they were, Frank among them, some of the worst individuals any Nation could possible create.

This was great! Thank you!

Excelente video como sempre !! Muito Obrigada!!

Very informative. Well done.

the picture at 42:55 is from the Warsaw Uprising ('44) not from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ('43)

I agree that his execution was just, remorse or no; but I do hope that his repentance was genuine and that he was able to find peace in the end.

The more I watched these documentaries, I realized Hitler and all of his circle was either bullied, failed at what they did, or had a hard time in life. Rose up and tried to strike back.

In this video it states that Speer got a life sentence which is incorrect. Speer served 20 years along with Schirach and both were released on the same day. Speer died in London in 1981. Hess got life along with others who were released on health reasons. Hess was the only prisoner never to be released. Thanks for posting.

Very informative, thank you.

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Even if he was totally sincere and experienced an actual conversion before God; he had to face the consequences. What transpired between him and God, no one knows but them.

Great work again. Narrator is brilliant too

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Even though Hans Frank was a gruesome, brutal, terrifying person, he has a wonderful son whom I really admire for his courage to still engage for peace and democracy even though he's old meanwhile and still facing a lot of hate from right-wing-people. Niklas Frank is a great man.

This documentary was a Frank discussion :)

Albert Speer was sentenced to 20 years prison not life

Where are Frank's diaries now housed? Are they accessible to academic researchers?

One of my favorite Nazi biographies(Alfred Jodl and Julius Streicher were others).

Kinda seems like he was sentenced death not for having much direct impact on the situation, but for being a cheerleader of it

Well researched & exceedingly well presented. As to Hans Frank's culpability... I'd say: Ranking in the lower-middle level of the world's worst serial mass-murderers is hardly praiseworthy. It does make me wonder, how a priest can presume the right to give absolution to the murderer of a million or so utterly innocent men, woman & children, none of who were consulted. That seems to take a world-class amount of chutzpa, to me.

These armies look absolutely primitive in 1935-6 compared with a short 4-5 years later in 1940-41. Possibly partially due to improvments in photography and film, but it sometimes appears as though the entire German country , cities, towns, scenery, street scenes, people and their attire , etc.etc. became very modern over night ! If the Wall street financial criminals had not brought about the international crash, just imagin what might have followed instead of what did.

Very interesting some of it was new to me, as I watch many videos about the German leaders of WW2.

Excellant video.

Any chance of doing a profile on Edmund Heines?

Very good.

Wonderful documentary and should say you are always excellent in being unbiased in presentation which helps us understand a person’s evolution & complexities. Like most said, Frank was prob appalled at the extent to which Nazis went but he was weak enuff not to do anything about it. It doesn’t excuse him as he is accountable as he accepted the position offered to him knowing well the nature of these guys. However , I think WW2 also presents a complex view of the region there. Russians hated the Poles as much as Nazis did , poles were anti Semitic too from what I understood. So in the end the only thing common was hate which one group exploited to commit horrors that shud shame humanity as a whole.

How we see Mr Frank is essentially unimportant its more importnat to ask how God sees him. A lot of Nazis might have escaped human justice but nobody ever escapes God's Justice.

Interesting video

Kinda ironic that this man was such a hardcore Nazi but his last name was Frank, like one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust.

So Frank was the Roy Cohn of Adolf Hitler.

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That was excellent i think he was treated correctly.

A lawyer AND a protestant?! By God, sir!

I am planning a book about WW2 so these biographics are beyond helpful

ALMOST EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY HAS SPIES AND HOW ON EARTH COULD GERMANY DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS WITHOUT THE MAJOR POWERS KNOWING???

Well researched and well narrated...however, I wish in all this type of documentary they would stop referring to the German army as Nazis, Nazis were a political party, not an army, it was the German army under the Nazi leadership that committed these atrocities, the German army was not made up of party members, they were ordinary Germans....

A absurda caricatura da essência do que nós fazemos. Sem comparar, é nossa parte do mal.

They misstated the inflation timing...it happened in 1923 not 1929

I wonder what the remaining family of Frank, and other of those deeply involved with the Holocaust, think? Do they deny their family's involvement or are sorry?

Speer was sentenced to 20 years, not life.

I don't know who came up with the annoying "arbeit macht frei" motto, but I hope that they saw prison for that.

Speer received a 20 year sentence v a Life sentence as stated

Speer no fue condenado a cadena perpetua, sino a 20 años, los cuales cumplió hasta el último día en la prisión de Spandau.

Uh, probably mentioned below, but Speer got 20 years...not life...

Prague munich and krakow nuremberg are beautiful city

yes

RIH Hans Frank (1900-1946)

Regret after being caught is regret of being caught. Not regret of your actions.

ZAWSZE...zeby Polska byla POLSKA 🇵🇱🙏

he called himself "the last King of Poland"

What happened to his evil wife?

Murders have a special place in Hell !

He absolutely should be categorized as horrible as the other Nazi murderers. He showed remorse bc he was trying one last ditch effort to be spared death.

Frank's biography reveals a man shamed by his father's malfeasance, haunted by a sense of inferiority, and intellectually limited. Weren't his "objections" at the Wansee Conference more for his own protection from legal liability, ironically under the laws of Das Dritte Reich/Nuremberg, for the cataclysmic eventualities that followed? He epitomizes the clear unbroken cycle of small-minded men and women who will do anything to reject personal responsibility for actions undertaken by government leaders.

I appreciate you reporting the Polish underground's support of the Jews.

Frankie-Froo was a barbecue! 😆😆

Guilty as the SS were

Frank had to answer with his life in this world , but he is exactly what Jesus Christ wishes for all of us , repentance and acceptance in our hearts and confession with our tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord and ask Him for forgiveness , , , if it was sincere , then Frank dwells in Heaven today !!

No Nazi, repentent or not. Should be given liniency.... where is their conscience, where is there love and care for fellow men? Races.... He deserved as he got. Regardless of converting to catholicism... as a learned man....He should have KNOWN BETTER!!!!