WAR CRIMES: Mea Culpa

When he was Governor General of Poland, Hans Frank remarked: "For all I care, mincemeat can be made out of the Poles."

Last week, in Nürnberg, he said: "I feel a terrible guilt within me. ... I am as guilty as the rest of Germany. ... A thousand years will pass and this guilt will not be erased."

First Frank had been hysterical. When the U.S. Army brought him to Mondorf Interrogation Center, he was clad only in lace panties and sobbed: "I am a criminal." Later he tried to commit suicide. After the Nurnberg trials opened Frank became a Catholic, prayed...

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