G. CONCLUSION.
As legal adviser of Hitler and the leadership corps of the NSDAP, Frank promoted the conspirators’ rise to power. In his various juridical capacities, both in the NSDAP and in the German government, Frank advocated and promoted the political monopoly of the NSDAP, the racial program of the conspirators, and the terror system of the concentration camp and of arrest without warrant. His role in the common plan was to realize “the National Socialist Program in the realm of law”, and to give the outward form of legality to this program of terror, persecution and oppression, which had as its ultimate purpose mobilization for aggressive war.
As a loyal adherent of Hitler and the NSDAP, Frank was appointed Governor General in October 1939 of that area of Poland known as the General Government, which became the testing ground for the conspirators’ program of “Lebensraum.” Frank had defined justice in the field of German law as that which benefited the German nation. His five year administration of the General Government illustrates the same principles applied in the field of International Law.
Frank took the office of Governor General under a program which constituted in itself a criminal plan or conspiracy, as Frank well knew and approved, to exploit the territory ruthlessly for the benefit of Nazi Germany, to conscript its nationals for labor in Germany, to close its schools and colleges to prevent the rise of a Polish intelligentsia, and to administer the territory as a colonial possession of the Third Reich in total disregard of the duties of an occupying power toward the inhabitants of occupied territory. Under Frank’s administration this criminal plan was consummated. But the execution went even beyond the plan. Food contributions to Germany increased to the point where the bare subsistence reserved for the General Government under the plan was reduced to the level of mass starvation; a savage program of exterminating Jews was relentlessly executed; resettlement projects were carried out with reckless disregard of the rights of the local population; the terror of the concentration camp followed in the wake of the Nazi invaders.
It has been shown that all of these crimes were committed in accordance with the official policies established and advocated by Frank.
This summary of evidence has been compiled almost entirely from statements by Frank himself, from the admissions found in his diaries, official reports, records of his conferences with his colleagues and subordinates, and his speeches. It is therefore appropriate that a final passage from his diary should be quoted in conclusion. In January 1943, Frank told his colleagues in the General Government that their task would grow more difficult. Hitler, he said, could only help them as a kind of “administrative pillbox”. They must depend on themselves.
“We are now duty bound to hold together [he continued] * * * We must remember that we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt’s list of war criminals. I have the honor of being Number One. We have, so to speak, become accomplices in the world historic sense.” (2233-AA-PS)
LEGAL REFERENCES AND LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO HANS FRANK
| Document | Description | Vol. | Page |
| Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Article 6. | I | 5 | |
| International Military Tribunal, Indictment Number 1, Section IV (H); Appendix A. | I | 29, 60 | |
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| Note: A single asterisk (*) before a document indicates that the document was received in evidence at the Nurnberg trial. A double asterisk (**) before a document number indicates that the document was referred to during the trial but was not formally received in evidence, for the reason given in parentheses following the description of the document. The USA series number, given in parentheses following the description of the document, is the official exhibit number assigned by the court. | |||
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| *437-PS | Extract from report, 19 June 1943, by Frank to Hitler, concerning situation in Poland. (USA 610) | III | 396 |
| *864-PS | Top Secret Note, 20 October 1939, on conference between Hitler and Chief OKW concerning future relations of Poland to Germany, 17 October 1939. (USA 609) | III | 619 |
| 1391-PS | Statute of the Academy for German Law, 2 July 1934. 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, pp. 605-607. | III | 970 |
| *1526-PS | Letter from Ukrainian Main Committee to Frank, February 1943. (USA 178) | IV | 79 |
| 2233-A-PS | Frank Diary. Abteilungsleitersitzungen, 1939-1940. Minutes of conferences, December and May 1940. (USA 173) | IV | 883 |
| *2233-B-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1940. Part I. January-March. (USA 174) | IV | 885 |
| *2233-C-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1940. Part IV. October-December. (USA 271) | IV | 890 |
| *2233-D-PS | Frank Diary. Regierungsitzungen. 1941. October-December. Entry of 16 December 1941 at pp. 76-77. (USA 281) | IV | 891 |
| *2233-E-PS | Frank Diary. Regierungs-Hauptabteilungsleiter-Sitzungen. 1942. Entry of 24 August 1942. (USA 283) | IV | 893 |
| *2233-F-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1 January 1944-28 February 1944. Entry of 25 January 1944 at p. 5. (USA 295) | IV | 902 |
| *2233-H-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1941. Part II. Entry of 19 April 1941. (USA 311) | IV | 904 |
| *2233-K-PS | Frank Diary. Abteilungsleitersitzungen. 1939-1940. Entry of 2 December 1939. (USA 173) | IV | 905 |
| 2233-L-PS | Frank Diary. Abteilungsleitersitzungen. 1939-1940. Entry of 19 January 1940 at pp. 11-12. | IV | 906 |
| *2233-M-PS | Frank Diary. Abteilungsleitersitzungen. 1939-1940. Entry of 8 March 1940. (USA 173) | IV | 906 |
| *2233-N-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1940. Part II. April to June. (USA 614) | IV | 907 |
| *2233-O-PS | Frank Diary. Abteilungsleitersitzungen. 1939-1940. Entry of 19 December 1940 at pp. 12-13. (USA 173) | IV | 909 |
| 2233-P-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1941. Part III. Entry of 9 September 1941 at p. 830. (USA 611) | IV | 909 |
| 2233-Q-PS | Frank Diary. Regierungssitzungen. October-December 1941. Entry of 16 December 1941 at pp. 35, 66. | IV | 909 |
| *2233-R-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part I. Entry of 18 March 1942 at pp. 185, 186, 195-196. (USA 608) | IV | 910 |
| *2233-S-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part III. Entry of 1 August 1942 at p. 798. (USA 607) | IV | 911 |
| *2233-T-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part III. Entry of 4 August 1942 at pp. 830-832. (USA 607) | IV | 911 |
| 2233-V-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part III. Entry of 5 August 1942 at pp. 866, 896. | IV | 912 |
| *2233-W-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part III. Entry of 18 August 1942 at pp. 918, 920. (USA 607) | IV | 912 |
| *2233-X-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part III. Entry of 28 August 1942 at pp. 968-969, 983. (USA 607) | IV | 913 |
| 2233-Y-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part IV. Entry of 20 November 1942 at pp. 1212-1213. | IV | 914 |
| *2233-Z-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1942. Part IV. Entry of 14 December 1942 at pp. 1329-1331. (USA 612) | IV | 915 |
| *2233-AA-PS | Frank Diary. Arbeitssitzungen. 1943. Entry of 25 January 1943 at pp. 16, 17, 19, 53. (USA 613) | IV | 916 |
| *2233-BB-PS | Frank Diary. Tagebuch. 1 January 1944-28 February 1944. Entry of 14 January, 15 January, 8 February 1944. (USA 295) | IV | 917 |
| 2533-PS | Extract from article “Legislation and Judiciary in Third Reich”, from Journal of the Academy for German Law, 1936, pp. 141-142. | V | 277 |
| 2536-PS | Speech by Dr. Frank on “The Jews in Jurisprudence” and Radio Speech, published in Documents of German Politics, Vol. II. | V | 277 |
| 2537-PS | Decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor concerning Administration of Occupied Polish Territories, October 1939. 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, p. 2077. | V | 279 |
| 2540-PS | Decree concerning sequestration of private property in the General Government, 24 January 1940, published in Verordnungsblatt fuer das Generalgouverneurs, No. 6, 27 January 1940, p. 23. | V | 280 |
| *2979-PS | Affidavit by Hans Frank, 15 November 1945, concerning positions held. (USA 7) | V | 684 |
| 3445-PS | Speech by Hans Frank, reported in German Law, 1939, Vol. 2. | VI | 153 |
| 3814-PS | Correspondence between Hans Frank, Lammers and various witnesses to the conduct of Frank, February 1945. | VI | 739 |
| 3815-PS | Report of the SS, 25 April 1942, concerning the activities of Hans Frank in Poland. | VI | 745 |
| *EC-344 16 and 17 | Thomas report, 20 August 1940, summarizing experience with German Armament Industry in Poland 1939-40 and extract from report by Captain Dr. Varain on same subject. (USA 297) | VII | 419 |
| Chart No. 1 | National Socialist German Workers’ Party. (2903-PS; USA 2) | VIII | 770 |