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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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....
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
59:50 It's not about his "public repentance". By law he has received a justified earthly sentence. Yet, IF he really repented before God when he was in prison and acknowledged Him as saviour - then he saved.
Sure of course, he received Jesus as his saviour and went to heaven. Heaven is full of mass murderers, killers, rapists, bombers, wife beaters, Hell is only for the people who strive to live good lives but are unlucky to die suddenly. Makes complete sense 👏
@@dickwhelehan8757 According to the bible it's pretty simple: If a person does not accept Jesus and repents and then dies unsaved and unrepenting, this person will later go to hell. Otherwise this person will indeed go to heaven because of Jesus' atonement. People are saved through grace and faith alone - not by striving to live a good live.
@@dickwhelehan8757 It is not smart to attempt to judge Almighty God by the standards of man. "For by grace are ye saved through faith. It is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast". Ephesians 2:9.
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.
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.
@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.
59:48 To answer your last question let me put it like this: if their is a god that allowed Hans Frank into heaven, I have no interest in going to heaven.
@@CbsOmegaOmniX does that same sentiment extend to Hitler, Himmler, Heinrich, Gobbles, etc? If god somehow permits such individuals into heaven then that god does not deserve worship.
@@ottovonbismarck1352 Hitler, Himmler and Gobbles never repented (and they all committed suicide) Frank truly seems to have, that alone is a big difference.
@@CbsOmegaOmniX actions speak louder then words. Albert Speer also apologized for his crimes though he was responsible for the enslavement of millions in Germanies war industry. Quite frankly, they can shove their apologies which can never mend the atrocities they committed. Had it not been for men like Frank, Hitler and the the Nazis would’ve never came to power. Frank believed in National Socialism and all the evils that came along with it. He supported and enabled the Nazis to rise to power, and supported their aims. Sometimes, an apology is simply not good enough. As another saying goes: to little to late. An apology will never be enough to forgive the atrocities committed by any Nazi including Frank.
@@CbsOmegaOmniX also another point, what you’re essentially saying is that had Hitler, Himmler, Gobbles, etc, apologies for their crimes and atrocities, they should then be forgiven and allowed into heaven. I hope you can see the absurdity in such a belief.
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.
48:10 The Soviets didn't "fail" to provide adequate support. They deliberately halted their attacks, to make it easier for the Nazis to crush the rebellion. They would rather have the war drag on for an extra 2 months, than allow Poland to free itself. They were quite happy to see the Nazis do the dirty work of decimating the Poles for them, because that made it easier for Russia to enslave Poland in the decades to come. USSR vs 3rd Reich was not good vs evil. It was one evil empire against another evil empire. The difference between the Germans and the Russians is that the Germans admitted their sins and apologised for them, whereas the Russians not only refuse to apologise for the many genocides they have attempted against multiple nations; they have never stopped committing them, and continue to commit them even to this day.
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.
I love how a lot of Americans watch this "like this is horrible", while completely ignoring our history. We could never support the persecution of one group of people, even though we still keep native Americans in concentration camps. I'm sorry we called them reservations
Not all Americans are this blind to realities of how America came to exist. Be careful lumping us all in one basket. Look at what happened in WW1 and WW2 when certain leaders did the same thing.
This guy supports concentration camps. He supports the live organ harvesting going on in China and the real modern day concentration camps there. He wants no country that ever made mistakes even hundreds of years ago to do anything about modern day atrocities. He believes foreign propaganda and cheers on the misery of those persecuted today.
Reservations are nothing like Nazi Ghettos or death camps. I have been on the reservation in Cherokee NC. There is no comparison. The wars between the Indian Tribes and the United States Army were brutal. The removal of the tribes were not a good part of our history. The Trail of Tears was a death march for many tribe members. However , please no Native Americans were sent to their death by gas chamber or intentional starvation or worked to death through forced labor. While there is a feeling America should return the land taken from American Indian Tribes, I suggest you start with surrendering any land you own and any all members of your family own. Tribe members were given reparations. While the American past is filled with racial injustices. The world must move forward and never repeat our brutal past and injustices toward any group. Never Again. By the way my husband is part Miami Indian ( proven lineage). My stepmother's family left Poland in the mid 1930s to escape Hitler. Remember, had my family left Poland after WWII began, they would have been denier entry into the United States most likely. I always think about the ship St. LOIUS That was denied entry into the US. We can't change history but we can vow to never repeat it.
@@FaithN100 you need to brush up on your history, bud. You are right though, they didn't have gas Chambers. But I'm sure a lot of the native Americans would have rather went peacefully in a gas chamber than how they were rapped and massacred. When it comes to starvation, not only did we try to starve them out. We tried to do it by killing off an entire species of animal, in order to starve out the native americans. The end of your statement perfectly shows your bias as well. You would probably think a lot differently about the way the native Americans we're treated if your stepmother was native American and you were old enough to actually speak to somebody who was put in the concentration camps originally. The last part of your statement is true though but you forgot the key portion of it. You can't change the past, you can vow never to repeat it but you should also not ignore some of it, to fit your narrative.
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....
What? Excuse me but it seems you confuse Wehrmacht and SS. Both were military formations who in many cases fought hand in hand. Wehrmacht did commit war crimes in Russia.
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.
I don't believe for one minute that he felt a shard of remorse for his crimes, considering that for the years preceding the trail, he was perfectly happy being the "king of Poland" and treating its inhabitants like animals and the country as his little kingdom to do with as he wished. It was a rather pathetic attempt at gaining sympathy from the panel of judges at the trial, and thankfully, they saw through his bullshit.
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 !!
So this man was effectively ditched by the NAZI's then arrested and tried all over the course of nearly a year , so of course he should suffer the sentence for his crimes but that doesn't mean that in that time he didn't come to realize he'd made a mistake in committing them . It isn't as though he had much else to do while being locked up but think about how he got there . Also if he had become Catholic he'd want to be absolved of his sins before his death. He can only do this through confession and repentance . It really just gives him some solace in death .
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.
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.
The fact that he seemingly welcomed his hanging, or at least was at peace with it, suggests to me that he was probably genuine in his contrition. He seems like a man who, under normal circumstances, may very well have been a good and decent man. I wonder what he would have become had he been born in a different era. That isn't to say he wasn't somewhat responsible for the atrocities, he was, and he got what he had coming. He didn't have as much power as others, such as the SS, but he also didn't stand up for what is just and good.
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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.
Met him, too. He seemed profoundly affected by his father's behaviour.
Would have really enjoyed seeing/hearing his thoughts and views on the topic myself
he is known to campaign a lot against facists.
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 UA-cam ever again.
@@hankworden3850I believe you should follow your own advice.
@@hankworden3850 underage
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
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
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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!
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
Very revealing! Thank you for all the research and knowledge.
Simply love 💕 this channel ! Informative and educational . The illustration/picture/drawing of each of the character is exceptional!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Wilhelm Canaris would be a fascinating study of a torn man...pretty please? 🙏
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.
Really glad to tune in to this one love History.
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.
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....
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.
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!
A Wonderful and informative documentary, thank you!
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.
Excelente video como sempre !! Muito Obrigada!!
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.
Another one of your wonderful documentaries. The narrator is fabulous! Many thanks for posting.
Beats some of the rubbish on TV, in my country.
Fascinating stuff (as always)
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.
Thank you for your hard work !
Speer did NOT do Life in Prison. I believe he was sentenced to 20 years.
True
For Europeans that's LIFE 😂😂
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...
@karlgharst5420 Since when the Bromberg massacre can justify an invasion that started 2 days prior ?
This was great! Thank you!
the picture at 42:55 is from the Warsaw Uprising ('44) not from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ('43)
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 .
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.
Great work again. Narrator is brilliant too
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.
Very informative. Well done.
That was a excellent informative documentary 👍 next up yezhov yagoda and darre
Very informative, thank you.
This filled in a few blanks I had about Hans Frank and the Holocaust.
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.
Love it so much info evrytime please make one of dirlewanger our sep dietrich ...dont stop evrytime a joy
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.
Where are Frank's diaries now housed? Are they accessible to academic researchers?
Frank's diary was published by his wife.
God is Hans Franks final judge. As of us all. Thank you for this video. Never again…..
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.
Any chance of doing a profile on Edmund Heines?
Kinda seems like he was sentenced death not for having much direct impact on the situation, but for being a cheerleader of it
This documentary was a Frank discussion :)
Albert Speer was sentenced to 20 years prison not life
One of my favorite Nazi biographies(Alfred Jodl and Julius Streicher were others).
Very interesting some of it was new to me, as I watch many videos about the German leaders of WW2.
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Excellant 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.
They misstated the inflation timing...it happened in 1923 not 1929
59:50 It's not about his "public repentance". By law he has received a justified earthly sentence. Yet, IF he really repented before God when he was in prison and acknowledged Him as saviour - then he saved.
Sure of course, he received Jesus as his saviour and went to heaven. Heaven is full of mass murderers, killers, rapists, bombers, wife beaters,
Hell is only for the people who strive to live good lives but are unlucky to die suddenly.
Makes complete sense 👏
@@dickwhelehan8757 According to the bible it's pretty simple: If a person does not accept Jesus and repents and then dies unsaved and unrepenting, this person will later go to hell. Otherwise this person will indeed go to heaven because of Jesus' atonement. People are saved through grace and faith alone - not by striving to live a good live.
@@Phil.2-10 it's not "according to the bible "
It's according to Paul , who never met jesus.
@@dickwhelehan8757 Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus.
@@dickwhelehan8757 It is not smart to attempt to judge Almighty God by the standards of man.
"For by grace are ye saved through faith. It is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast".
Ephesians 2:9.
ALMOST EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY HAS SPIES AND HOW ON EARTH COULD GERMANY DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS WITHOUT THE MAJOR POWERS KNOWING???
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.
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.
I appreciate you reporting the Polish underground's support of the Jews.
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 😀
Very good.
59:48 To answer your last question let me put it like this: if their is a god that allowed Hans Frank into heaven, I have no interest in going to heaven.
Even if the only alternative was going to hell? As the old saying goes hate the sin not the sinner.
@@CbsOmegaOmniX does that same sentiment extend to Hitler, Himmler, Heinrich, Gobbles, etc?
If god somehow permits such individuals into heaven then that god does not deserve worship.
@@ottovonbismarck1352 Hitler, Himmler and Gobbles never repented (and they all committed suicide) Frank truly seems to have, that alone is a big difference.
@@CbsOmegaOmniX actions speak louder then words. Albert Speer also apologized for his crimes though he was responsible for the enslavement of millions in Germanies war industry.
Quite frankly, they can shove their apologies which can never mend the atrocities they committed. Had it not been for men like Frank, Hitler and the the Nazis would’ve never came to power.
Frank believed in National Socialism and all the evils that came along with it. He supported and enabled the Nazis to rise to power, and supported their aims. Sometimes, an apology is simply not good enough. As another saying goes: to little to late. An apology will never be enough to forgive the atrocities committed by any Nazi including Frank.
@@CbsOmegaOmniX also another point, what you’re essentially saying is that had Hitler, Himmler, Gobbles, etc, apologies for their crimes and atrocities, they should then be forgiven and allowed into heaven. I hope you can see the absurdity in such a belief.
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.
48:10 The Soviets didn't "fail" to provide adequate support. They deliberately halted their attacks, to make it easier for the Nazis to crush the rebellion. They would rather have the war drag on for an extra 2 months, than allow Poland to free itself. They were quite happy to see the Nazis do the dirty work of decimating the Poles for them, because that made it easier for Russia to enslave Poland in the decades to come.
USSR vs 3rd Reich was not good vs evil. It was one evil empire against another evil empire. The difference between the Germans and the Russians is that the Germans admitted their sins and apologised for them, whereas the Russians not only refuse to apologise for the many genocides they have attempted against multiple nations; they have never stopped committing them, and continue to commit them even to this day.
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.
A absurda caricatura da essência do que nós fazemos. Sem comparar, é nossa parte do mal.
Interesting video
I love how a lot of Americans watch this "like this is horrible", while completely ignoring our history. We could never support the persecution of one group of people, even though we still keep native Americans in concentration camps. I'm sorry we called them reservations
Not all Americans are this blind to realities of how America came to exist. Be careful lumping us all in one basket. Look at what happened in WW1 and WW2 when certain leaders did the same thing.
I like how fools declare themselves as fools with American whatbaoutism. It’s like they have to get in a daily dose of copium by posting idiocy.
This guy supports concentration camps. He supports the live organ harvesting going on in China and the real modern day concentration camps there. He wants no country that ever made mistakes even hundreds of years ago to do anything about modern day atrocities. He believes foreign propaganda and cheers on the misery of those persecuted today.
Reservations are nothing like Nazi Ghettos or death camps. I have been on the reservation in Cherokee NC. There is no comparison. The wars between the Indian Tribes and the United States Army were brutal. The removal of the tribes were not a good part of our history. The Trail of Tears was a death march for many tribe members. However , please no Native Americans were sent to their death by gas chamber or intentional starvation or worked to death through forced labor. While there is a feeling America should return the land taken from American Indian Tribes, I suggest you start with surrendering any land you own and any all members of your family own. Tribe members were given reparations. While the American past is filled with racial injustices. The world must move forward and never repeat our brutal past and injustices toward any group. Never Again. By the way my husband is part Miami Indian ( proven lineage). My stepmother's family left Poland in the mid 1930s to escape Hitler. Remember, had my family left Poland after WWII began, they would have been denier entry into the United States most likely. I always think about the ship St. LOIUS That was denied entry into the US. We can't change history but we can vow to never repeat it.
@@FaithN100 you need to brush up on your history, bud. You are right though, they didn't have gas Chambers. But I'm sure a lot of the native Americans would have rather went peacefully in a gas chamber than how they were rapped and massacred. When it comes to starvation, not only did we try to starve them out. We tried to do it by killing off an entire species of animal, in order to starve out the native americans. The end of your statement perfectly shows your bias as well. You would probably think a lot differently about the way the native Americans we're treated if your stepmother was native American and you were old enough to actually speak to somebody who was put in the concentration camps originally. The last part of your statement is true though but you forgot the key portion of it. You can't change the past, you can vow never to repeat it but you should also not ignore some of it, to fit your narrative.
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.
What? Excuse me but it seems you confuse Wehrmacht and SS. Both were military formations who in many cases fought hand in hand. Wehrmacht did commit war crimes in Russia.
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.
Speer no fue condenado a cadena perpetua, sino a 20 años, los cuales cumplió hasta el último día en la prisión de Spandau.
So Frank was the Roy Cohn of Adolf Hitler.
I don't know who came up with the annoying "arbeit macht frei" motto, but I hope that they saw prison for that.
A lawyer AND a protestant?! By God, sir!
That was excellent i think he was treated correctly.
Speer received a 20 year sentence v a Life sentence as stated
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.
Speer got twenty years, not life imprisonment. Small detail, but a documentary should be as accurate as possible.
I don't believe for one minute that he felt a shard of remorse for his crimes, considering that for the years preceding the trail, he was perfectly happy being the "king of Poland" and treating its inhabitants like animals and the country as his little kingdom to do with as he wished. It was a rather pathetic attempt at gaining sympathy from the panel of judges at the trial, and thankfully, they saw through his bullshit.
Maybe you're right, but it's up to God in the end.
RIH
Hans Frank
(1900-1946)
What does RIH stand for? Rest In Hell?
@@garydownes1594It stands for “Rot in hell”.
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. ??!!!
ZAWSZE...zeby Polska byla POLSKA 🇵🇱🙏
Zakazane historie - Y T
Agreed!
Near the end of this vid, Speer got 20 yrs not life
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 !!
So this man was effectively ditched by the NAZI's then arrested and tried all over the course of nearly a year , so of course he should suffer the sentence for his crimes but that doesn't mean that in that time he didn't come to realize he'd made a mistake in committing them . It isn't as though he had much else to do while being locked up but think about how he got there . Also if he had become Catholic he'd want to be absolved of his sins before his death. He can only do this through confession and repentance . It really just gives him some solace in death .
yes
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.
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.
The fact that he seemingly welcomed his hanging, or at least was at peace with it, suggests to me that he was probably genuine in his contrition.
He seems like a man who, under normal circumstances, may very well have been a good and decent man. I wonder what he would have become had he been born in a different era.
That isn't to say he wasn't somewhat responsible for the atrocities, he was, and he got what he had coming. He didn't have as much power as others, such as the SS, but he also didn't stand up for what is just and good.