GERMAN LAW
[Deutsches Recht] (Edition A), 1939 Vol. 2, Number 45/46, 23/30 Dec 1939, page 2121.
Speech by Hans Frank before Academy of German Law
Today we are proud to have formulated our legal principles from the very beginning in such a way that they need not be changed in the. case of war. For the rule, that right is that which is useful to the nation, and wrong is that which harms it, which stood at the beginning of our legal work, and which established this collective term of nation as the only standard of value of the law—this rule dominates also the law of these times.
Extract from a speech, on current legal principles as appropriate for both peacetime and war, based on the rule "that right is that which is useful to the nation"
Authors
Hans Frank (Chief of Legal Office, NSDAP; Governor General of Poland)
Hans Frank
German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900-1946)
- Born: 1900-05-23 (Karlsruhe)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Nuremberg Court Prison) (reason for deprecated rank: item/value with less precision and/or accuracy; reason for preferred rank: most precise value)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Workers' Party (since: 1919-01-01); Nazi Party
- Member of: Sturmabteilung; Thule Society
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch
- Significant person: John C. Woods (role: executioner)
Date: December 1939
Literal Title: Speech by Hans Frank before Academy of German Law
Defendant: Hans Frank
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3445
Citation: IMT (page 2460)
HLSL Item No.: 452413
Notes:This document was entered for judicial notice without an exhibit number.