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Hans Frank is the governor of Poland under the Nazis, and he earns a reputation for being brutal, particularly toward the Jewish population. Despite his party-line ideology and his anti-Semitism, however, he initially favors deporting Jewish people to Madagascar instead of attempting to exterminate them (which he believes wouldn’t work).
Hans Frank Quotes in Schindler’s List
The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Hans Frank or refer to Hans Frank. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 6 Quotes
By November 1, 1940, Frank had managed to move 23,000 Jewish volunteers out of Cracow. Some of them went to the new ghettos in Warsaw and Łódź. The gaps at table, the grieving at railway stations can be imagined, but people took it meekly, thinking, We’ll do this, and that will be the brunt of what they ask. Oskar knew it was happening, but, like the Jews themselves, hoped it was a temporary excess.
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Chapter 8 Quotes
Before the Hilos had even been properly calibrated, Oskar began to get hints from his SS contacts at Pomorska Street that there was to be a ghetto for Jews. He mentioned the rumor to Stern, not wanting to arouse alarm. Oh, yes, said Stern, the word was out. Some people were even looking forward to it. We’ll be inside, the enemy will be outside. We can run our own affairs. No one will envy us, no one stone us in the streets. The walls of the ghetto will be fixed. The walls would be the final, fixed form of the catastrophe.
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Hans Frank Character Timeline in Schindler’s List
The timeline below shows where the character Hans Frank appears in Schindler’s List. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4
Hans Frank , the governor of Poland under the Nazis, lives at the end of the same...
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Chapter 5
...talks about the Judenrats, Jewish councils that have been set up in each community by Governor Frank . They supply labor to the camps, perhaps because they believe it will stop random...
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Chapter 6
Governor Frank announces in April that all Jews, with the exception of a couple thousand skilled workers,...
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Chapter 10
...becoming more repressive in the ghetto. Control of the ghetto has been handed down from Governor Frank to Julian Scherner, a middle-aged SS officer who looks like a standard bureaucrat (and whom...
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