Hans Frank (1900-1946)

Top Nazi lawyer, e.g. for Hitler. From 1939-1945 Frank was Governor General in the General Government (Poland). Hans Frank played an important role in the persecution of the Jews in the General Government. He shared the responsibility for all the laws that restricted the lives of the Jews as well as for the establishment of the ghettos. At the war tribunal in Nuremberg, Frank was accused as one of the main war criminals. He was sentenced to death and later hanged. While in prison he wrote his autobiography, Im Angesicht des Galgens (‘Facing the Gallows’).