The Franks were liberal Jews, and did not observe all of the customs and traditions of Judaism. If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, that there are no slain, that there has been no crime. I nearly died with shame! As a result of his daily morning swim in the polluted Tiber, von Wächter contracted jaundice and died in July 1949, never having answered for what were almost certainly monstrous crimes. Contact Us | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright, Celebrities Interesting Facts By Nationality, Celebrities Interesting Facts By Profession.

When the Final Solution was discussed, he instructed his officers to 'annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and whenever it is possible'.

He was born in the city of Lemberg - today known as Lviv - in 1904, when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In January there will be a major conference on this question in Berlin to which I shall send State Secretary Dr Buhler.

Their stories, and their relationship, coalesces in the acclaimed documentary 'My Nazi Legacy'. His motive in the Lviv trip was to try to get Horst to acknowledge his father's role in the Holocaust by showing him burned synagogues and mass graves - and then ambushing him with paperwork proving his dad gave the commands for the atrocities. Defendant Hans Frank, former Governor General of occupied Poland, in his cell at the Nuremberg prison. Head in the sand: Horst, pictured in his castle home, has kept hold of family albums which show how closely his parents were tied to the regime - including snaps of Hitler, in amongst shots of children, At the heart of the regime: A photograph of von Wächter (centre) with Arthur Seyss-Inquart, right, who led the Occupied Dutch territories, alongside a picture of a baby - possibly one of the von Wachter children. There will be ample room here for a few million Jews on an area of 500,000 sq.

'If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot,' he once boasted to a Nazi newspaper correspondent, 'the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for those posters.'. All rights reserved.

The boys met and played as their fathers plotted genocide. Over a period of 18 months, Wächter's administration supported the deportation and murder of just about every Jew in the city and surrounding areas.'. 'Thin men were mounted on to a wild donkey and the donkey bucked and the men fell off, and they could only pick themselves up again very slowly, and they didn't find it as funny as I did,' he said.

Anne Frank (12 June 1929 – February 1945)[1] was a German-born Jewish girl who, along with her family and four other people, hid in the second and third floor rooms at the back of her father's Amsterdam company during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In any case, we must find a way that will lead us to our goal and I have my own ideas on this.