Hans Frank
This document was retrieved from Nizkor. Diary of Hans Frank, then
Governor General of Occupied Poland. In a cabinet session on Tuesday, 16 December 1941 in the Government Building at Cracow, Frank made a closing address, as follows:
"But what should be done with the Jews? Do you think they will be settled down in the 'Ostland',
in villages? This is what we were told in Berlin: Why all this bother ? We can do nothing with
them either in the 'Ostland' nor in the 'Reich kommissariat'. So liquidate them yourself.
"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, in order to maintain there the structure of the
Reich as a whole. This will, naturally, be achieved by other methods than those pointed out by
Bureau Chief Dr. Hummel. Nor can the judges of the Special Courts be made responsible for it,
because of the limitations of the framework of the legal procedure. Such outdated views cannot be
applied to such gigantic and unique events. We must find at any rate a way which leads to the
goal, and my thoughts are working in that direction.
"The Jews represent for us-also extraordinarily malignant gluttons. We have now approximately
2,500,000 of them in the General Government, perhaps with the Jewish mixtures and everything
that goes with it, 3,500,000 Jews. We cannot shoot or poison those 3,500,000 Jews, but we shall
nevertheless be able to take measures, which will lead, somehow, to their annihilation, and this in
connection with the gigantic measures to be determined in discussions from the Reich. The
General Government must become free of Jews, the same as the Reich. Where and how this is to
be achieved is a matter for the offices which we must appoint and create here. Their activities will
be brought to your attention in due course."
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
"As far as the Jews are concerned, I want to tell you quite frankly that they must be done away
with in one way or. another. The FŸhrer said once: 'Should united Jewry again succeed in
provoking a world-war, the blood of not only the nations which have been forced into the war by
them, will be shed, but the Jew will have found his end in Europe'. I know that many of the
measures carried out against the Jews in the Reich at present are being criticized. It is being tried
intentionally, as is obvious from the reports on the morale, to talk about cruelty, harshness, etc.
Before I continue, I want to beg you to agree with me on the following formula: We will
principally have pity on the German people only, and
nobody else in the whole world. The others, too, had no pity on us. As an old National-Socialist, I
must say: This war would only be a partial success if the whole lot of Jewry would survive it,
while we would have shed our best blood in order to save Europe. My attitude towards the Jews
will, therefore, be based only on the expectation that they must disappear. They must be done
away with. I have entered negotiations to have them deported to the East. A great discussion
concerning that question will take place in Berlin in January, to which I am going to delegate the
State Secretary Dr. Buehler. That discussion is to take place in the Reich Security Main Office
with SS-Lt. General Heydrich. A great Jewish migration will begin, in any case. 
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