Quotes by Hans Frank

• In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
• The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
• On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
• Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
• My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
• It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
• It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
• In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.
• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
• I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
• First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
• An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
• War is not a thing one wants.