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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

38. Hans Frank, Family Man

Hans Frank was Hitler’s personal attorney, who was made Governor-General of occupied Poland in 1939. He instituted a reign of terror whose lowlights featured the segregation of Jews into ghettos, and the use of millions of Polish civilians as forced laborers. Frank had five children, but he reconciled affection towards his own kids with coldhearted indifference towards hundreds of thousands of other people’s children. In 1941, he instructed his subordinates: “Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourself of all feelings of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and whenever it is possible“. He was hanged as a war criminal after the war.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.