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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

37. Hans Frank’s Kids

Hans Frank, left, and his son Niklas. SBS

Hans Frank’s children, the one who went the furthest in rejecting their father was the youngest, Niklas. Upon growing up, Niklas became a journalist for Stern magazine and West Germany’s Playboy. Over time, the more he learned of his father, the more he came to hate the man. In 1987, he published In the Shadow of the Reich, a book that stirred controversy in Germany for the unprecedented manner in which he savaged the memory of his father, whom he described as a “slime hole of a Hitler fanatic“.

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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.