Hans Frank

"It doesnt matter whether Im judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, Id gladly do it."

"Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as Ive always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months."

"I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy."

"This war would be only a partial success if the whole lot of Jewry survived it, while we shed our best blood to save Europe. My attitude toward the Jews will therefore be based solely on the expectation that they must disappear. They must be done away with. Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourself of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible."

"If the authority of the National-Socialist Reich is to be upheld, then it is unacceptable that representatives of the Reich should be obliged to meet Jews when they enter or leave the house, and are in this way liable to infection with epidemics. I therefore intend to clear the city of Cracow, the seat of the Governor-General of the General Government, of Jews, as far as at all possible, by November 1, 1940. There will be a major operation to move the Jews, on the grounds that it is absolutely intolerable that thousands upon thousands of Jews should go slinking around and occupy apartments in the city which the Führer has granted the great honor of becoming the seat of a high Reich Authority..."

"We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelts list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One."

"In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper."

"I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories."

"I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right."

"After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical."

"You cant indict a government and its organizations as criminal. The conception of the Reich government is a hundred years old. The general staff is several hundreds of years old. The case of the SS is another matter, because it was started with the party and by the party. But its quite impossible to indict or convict an organization as criminal if it has in its membership millions of innocent people."

"Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light."