The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank
The definitive account of the life of Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer who formalized the Nazi race laws - later hanged at Nuremberg

The life of the Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, who converted to Catholicism before he died, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways he warrants it more. His life symbolizes Germany's hubristic and visionary ambition to an alarming degree much better than anyone else's, perhaps because he was an intellectual of the highest caliber: ‘Can’t they see,’ he said of his fellow accused at Nuremberg, ‘that this is a horrible tragedy in the history of mankind, and that we are the symbols of an evil that God is brushing aside?’

As he recognized by the end he was a primary - if not the exemplary - symbol of evil, his remorse, self-pity, and arrogance knew no bounds as they vied with his contrition. Author Garry O'Connor brings his skills as a playwright, biographer and novelist to this harrowing account of Histler's lawyer, the man who formalized the Nazi race laws.
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The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank
The definitive account of the life of Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer who formalized the Nazi race laws - later hanged at Nuremberg

The life of the Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, who converted to Catholicism before he died, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways he warrants it more. His life symbolizes Germany's hubristic and visionary ambition to an alarming degree much better than anyone else's, perhaps because he was an intellectual of the highest caliber: ‘Can’t they see,’ he said of his fellow accused at Nuremberg, ‘that this is a horrible tragedy in the history of mankind, and that we are the symbols of an evil that God is brushing aside?’

As he recognized by the end he was a primary - if not the exemplary - symbol of evil, his remorse, self-pity, and arrogance knew no bounds as they vied with his contrition. Author Garry O'Connor brings his skills as a playwright, biographer and novelist to this harrowing account of Histler's lawyer, the man who formalized the Nazi race laws.
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The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank

The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank

by Garry O'Connor
The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank

The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank

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The definitive account of the life of Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer who formalized the Nazi race laws - later hanged at Nuremberg

The life of the Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, who converted to Catholicism before he died, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways he warrants it more. His life symbolizes Germany's hubristic and visionary ambition to an alarming degree much better than anyone else's, perhaps because he was an intellectual of the highest caliber: ‘Can’t they see,’ he said of his fellow accused at Nuremberg, ‘that this is a horrible tragedy in the history of mankind, and that we are the symbols of an evil that God is brushing aside?’

As he recognized by the end he was a primary - if not the exemplary - symbol of evil, his remorse, self-pity, and arrogance knew no bounds as they vied with his contrition. Author Garry O'Connor brings his skills as a playwright, biographer and novelist to this harrowing account of Histler's lawyer, the man who formalized the Nazi race laws.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781803995908
Publisher: The History Press
Publication date: 10/01/2024
Edition description: New edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

GARRY O’CONNOR is the author of more than a dozen books, including best-selling biographies of Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness, William Shakespeare and Pope John Paul II, as well as several plays.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 11

Part 1

1 Saving Germany from Self-Accusation 19

2 In the Superior Range 25

3 Gretchen 32

4 The Mission 40

5 Mephistopheles Unveiled 46

6 Sexuality 56

7 Bürgerbräu Cellar 62

8 Marriage 69

Part 2

9 Mein Kampf 75

10 Bad Blood 82

11 Not Far from the Vienna Woods 88

12 Kirchenkampf 97

13 'A Humble Soldier' and Il Duce 111

14 Faustus at the Feast 117

Part 3

15 To Poland 123

16 Warsaw - 'From Which Everything Harmful Flows' 137

17 Anni Mirabili of the Reich, 1940-41 141

18 Himmler Reacts 149

19 Redemption-The Real Gretchen 157

20 The Sex Life of King Stanislaus 162

21 L'Uomo Universale 173

22 Managerial Problems 177

23 The Prince Archbishop 187

24 Vogue La Galère 195

Part 4

25 Walpürgisnacht 199

26 To Nuremberg 204

27 The Butcher's Conversion 215

28 Governor Faust Takes the Stand 222

29 Punishment 236

Appendix: Definition of the Term 'Jew' in the Government General 241

Notes 244

Select Bibliography 250

Index 252

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