"You can't 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 it's quite impossible to indict or convict an organization as criminal if it has in its membership millions of innocent people."
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To Leon Goldensohn, July 20, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
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Hans Frank
1900 – 1946
deutscher Politiker der [[w:DAP|DAP]] und [[w:NSDAP|NSDAP]], Jurist, Generalgouverneur der besetzten polnischen Gebiete im Zweiten Weltkrieg, verurteilt im [[w:Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher|Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher]]
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