Hans Frank - Governor of Occupied Poland Documentary
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Do Fritz Todt! That guy always flies under the radar even though he has had an enormous impact on modern society, from the autobahn to the mixing of the urban and natural elements in design planning, even to logistical supply systems/methods still in use today!
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.
The sins of the father should not be visited on the sons. I respect him too.
I enjoyed the fact that there was not a lot of annoying music playing in the background of this documentary
I would enjoy it if you never leave a comment on TH-cam ever again.
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I don't think u watch a lot of history videos if music affects your opportunity to learn about some of these evil people. I don't even notice it.
@@Dancingonthesun your Mom is
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!
Well he was a gay so it was understandable
"Used and then betrayed his lieutenants". Sounds a lot like Orangeface, doesn't it?
@@jamiegumm4398 lol. Beat me to it.
That’s not true. Hitler was extremely loyal to certain of his subordinates. Even when Goering was obviously incompetent, hooked on drugs and becoming an increasingly laughable figure, Hitler stood by him. Stalin would’ve had Goering shot after the Battle of Britain. Hitler remained loyal to Ribbentrop, long after he’d outlived his usefulness and he tolerated Himmler’s hypochondria and bizarre superstitious beliefs, only turning against him when he discovered he was trying to negotiate with the allies. Hitler even allowed Albert Speer to live after he admitted that he had been disobeying the Fuhrer’s orders. Hitler was a human being who could be very lenient with people he liked and ruthless and dismissive of people he didn’t….just like most of us.
Everyone around them (I use them as I'm also referring to current political parties) are disposable.
If anything seems to good to be true (Nazism, make America Great Again, I am not a crook..)
It is.
Well researched, educational and insightful. Many thanks THE PEOPLE PROFILES for sharing it with all of us. 🇨🇦
" We speculate " is a qoute from the narrator. Please explain " well researched ", with the word speculate.
@@joekabotz734 One can research as much as possible and will need to speculate when all available sources are not sufficient
@@joekabotz734
I would speculate... why don't you make your own channel and then you can speculate as much as you want to speculate. Cheers.
I love all your videos!! Thank you so much for putting out great profiles of historical people, this is the type of show I remember the OLD History Channel used to put out before it became garbage!
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.
Guilt by association amen!!!
You're on a roll The Peoples Profiles! Yet another, amazing documentary. ❤️🙌. Thank you so much.
If Frank was truly remorseful, he should have pleaded guilty at the start of the trial and asked for an immediate sentence.
What for? He acted according the Nuremberg laws of 1935 which was the valid law in Germany (and it’s occupied territories) up to that time.
@@MothaLuva Do you say "NSDAP" instead of "Nazi" too?
@@amyhogarten5038 Only for the party and it’s members. “Nazi” is an attitude which is not necessarily present in all party members. On the other hand, many Nazis are/were not even members of the party at all.
@@MothaLuva are you a party member?
@@amyhogarten5038 Sort of a strange question, don’t you think? Considering that party doesn’t exist since May 8th, 1945.
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.
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.
Very revealing! Thank you for all the research and knowledge.
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.
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.
A much more humane fate then the concentration camp victims received....
Unlike most, he seemed to have been entirely honest, given how eager he was to die at the end.
@@AhsokaFanboy1138 I don't know for sure.
We must give his judgment over to God.
Wilhelm Canaris would be a fascinating study of a torn man...pretty please? 🙏
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.
Thank You Profiles, been waiting for a good documentary on this overlooked Governor of Hell on Earth.
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.
Speer did NOT do Life in Prison. I believe he was sentenced to 20 years.
True
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Being a professional photographer I can really appreciate both motion & still photography. Many were often killed while filming.
Being a professional photographer I can really appreciate both motion & still photography. Many were often killed while filming.
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.
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....
Haven't watched it yet, already I can tell you put maximum effort into this video, can't wait to watch it!
How can you tell the level of effort put into it if you haven't watched it? You cant can you? Now go to your room and have a think about what you have typed here you silly man.
Another one of your wonderful documentaries. The narrator is fabulous! Many thanks for posting.
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.
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Really glad to tune in to this one love History.
A Wonderful and informative documentary, thank you!
This filled in a few blanks I had about Hans Frank and the Holocaust.
Beats some of the rubbish on TV, in my country.
Fascinating stuff (as always)
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.
With the Bromberg, East Prussian and Danzig massacres causing the German invasion, and daily partisan attacks during the occupation, one can understand Germany's resolve to maintain order. Brutality is best demonstrated under Soviet occupation...
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.
Hans Frank did not attend the wannsee conference although his deputy did attend the wannsee confrence.
Excellent!
I would really appreciate a bio on the Nazi judge Roland! Haven't been able to find much about him.
I was coming here to comment the exact same thing, the Nazi subversion of the judicial system is fascinating and incomplete without Ronald.
Yes Freisler would definitely be a good one.
there's some docu about freisler
Too bad you can't understand German.
There are countless good documentaries about him.
Thank you for your hard work !
This was great! Thank you!
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.
Well, I guess that Sixtus was mentioned because he had some success, while Keitel and Ribbentrop remained unrepentent.
@@chris00nj That’s not true, maybe that was true with Ribbentrop but certainly not Keitel, he was essentially Gerecke’s equivalent to Frank at Nuremberg.
Persecution to the death of Jewish innocents is punishable by death no matter how you slice it. Evil devours itself.
@@robynball2989I mean yeah, I never said Hans Frank should not have gotten the death penalty, whether you believe he was genuinely remorseful or not is for you to decide.
Or any innocents,@@robynball2989 .
He also had Poles killed.
Very informative, thank you.
Very informative. Well done.
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.
the picture at 42:55 is from the Warsaw Uprising ('44) not from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ('43)
Excelente video como sempre !! Muito Obrigada!!
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.
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.
mahomet did worse
@@JohnGeometresMaximos So did Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung.
@@jacksonreilly3441
Indeed.
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 .
Great work again. Narrator is brilliant too
That was a excellent informative documentary 👍 next up yezhov yagoda and darre
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.
God is Hans Franks final judge. As of us all. Thank you for this video. Never again…..
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.
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.
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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.
This documentary was a Frank discussion :)
Where are Frank's diaries now housed? Are they accessible to academic researchers?
Very interesting some of it was new to me, as I watch many videos about the German leaders of WW2.
Any chance of doing a profile on Edmund Heines?
Albert Speer was sentenced to 20 years prison not life
Excellant video.
One of my favorite Nazi biographies(Alfred Jodl and Julius Streicher were others).
Very good.
Kinda seems like he was sentenced death not for having much direct impact on the situation, but for being a cheerleader of it
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.
Interesting video
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.
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.
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So Frank was the Roy Cohn of Adolf Hitler.
A absurda caricatura da essência do que nós fazemos. Sem comparar, é nossa parte do mal.
I am planning a book about WW2 so these biographics are beyond helpful
Documentaries Serve only as beginning of understanding.
@Strongholdex true, especially about something as diverse and all encompassing as the second world was was. It's pretty easy to see how some people specialized in learning about one aspect of the conflict
@aidinwhite5783 Problem with WW2 sources is that it gets harder to get to the original sources. And when it comes to newer sources, every author has its own bias, therefore I am grateful that my Master Thesis is about something not as well researched, because I have more original sources.
That being said, my master thesis has nothing to do with history.
@Strongholdex that comes with its own challenges though so I wish you the best of luck on what you are researching.
@@aidinwhite It is about the change in European Accounting rules since 1978 😀
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.
yes
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.
They misstated the inflation timing...it happened in 1923 not 1929
That was excellent i think he was treated correctly.
A lawyer AND a protestant?! By God, sir!
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
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?
I live in Germany and I met his son Niklas Frank when he visited our school.
He was very honest when it came to the crimes of his father.
And he felt very guilty... (despite the fact that he was only a child at the time)
There are also countless Interviews with him.
Just type his name and you'll find it.
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.
Speer was sentenced to 20 years, not life.
British parlance. A life sentence here is usually 15-20 years. Not like America where you can get sent down 4000 years or thereabouts. ??!!!
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
ALMOST EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY HAS SPIES AND HOW ON EARTH COULD GERMANY DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS WITHOUT THE MAJOR POWERS KNOWING???
he called himself "the last King of Poland"
Regret after being caught is regret of being caught. Not regret of your actions.
Not necessarily, although there indeed are cases where that certainly is the case.
RIH
Hans Frank
(1900-1946)
What does RIH stand for? Rest In Hell?
@@garydownes1594It stands for “Rot in hell”.
Very good documentary. Excellent video and pictorial accompaniment as well. The documentary went very light on the Soviets leaving the Polish Home Army -- its real name -- to be slaughtered along with 200,000+ other Polish civilians in the uprising. Nor the fact that the Soviets were actually worse than the Nazis (I know, doesn't seem possible but according to my surviving Polish relatives they were) in their treatment of Poles and Ukrainians they took over in 1939. Also no mention of the vicious thug Bandera in the Borderlands/Volhynia/Wolyn in 1943 and the massacres he was responsible for stirring up (this is the guy Putin is referring to when he talks about Nazis in Ukraine). Very well researched though, so thanks for posting and do keep them coming.
Uh this was not a general doc about Poland but about one specific man thus none of the "issues" you brought up are relevant
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....
Exactly.
Good point.
Frankie-Froo was a barbecue! 😆😆
Dude, not funny!
What happened to his evil wife?
Died in poverty in Munich, which is a truly deserving fate.
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.
Why "intellectually limited"?
From what I read of people who knew him, he was both very intelligent(IQ of 130) and could read people very well.
I'm just confused.
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.
Murders have a special place in Hell !
ZAWSZE...zeby Polska byla POLSKA 🇵🇱🙏
Zakazane historie - Y T
Agreed!
Was he a horrible person and guilty? Yes... although compared to everyone else he was rather tame considering the crimes and control everyone else had.
I thought this was a documentary not " I assume and speculate " video.
It was.
His son Niklas Frank also spoke alot about his father.
And this Video is very accurate.
He would agree with it.
But hey..
You couldn't know it.
You never met him like I did.
I appreciate you reporting the Polish underground's support of the Jews.