Pale Phantoms

Before Adolf Hitler came to power, tall, flabby Dr. Hans Frank, one of the first Nazis, was kept busy defending brown-shirted terrorists in German courts and figuring out legal ways & means for the Nazis to take over the Government. Since Jan. 30, 1933, Dr. Frank has been even more occupied writing a Nazi Penal Code, compiling briefs proving the Third Reich's legal rights to its conquests, thinking up new methods to milk the Jews of their money and jobs.

It was Dr. Frank who introduced "love of the Fuehrer" into Nazi Germany as a "legal concept." He also invented the notion of "civic death," whereby the Nazis' enemies would be denied all legal existence and hence would have no rights, recourse to law or protection. Instead of "no punishment without law," Dr. Frank's motto was "no crime without punishment." Besides being a Minister Without Portfolio and Reich's Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Frank is also president of the German Academy of Law and Governor General of the Occupied Territories in Poland. Last week his various duties kept him hopping:

> In Berlin, before the Academy, Lawyer Frank defined Germany's new code as "war law," predicted that these Nazi principles of law would soon become a part of world law. "The maxim 'Right is whatever profits a nation; wrong is whatever harms it,' marked the beginning of our legal work," Dr. Frank keynoted. "Pale phantoms of objective justice do not exist for us any more. . . . The transition from the normal status of National Socialist legal thinking to thinking in terms of the law of war is being accomplished without grave upheavals. . . . The decisive principle is, who is stronger, who is more determined, who has better nerves? Whoever does not admit this is a pale theorist and is no good for politics or, in the deepest sense, for creative law-giving."

> Back in Cracow, Poland, from where he governs some 15,000,000 Poles,* Governor General Frank received a Russian delegation arriving by special train. Two years ago Dr. Frank called Germany the "protector against Bolshevistic terror" and said that the Germans would have "no dealings with Communism in Moscow or elsewhere." But last week the visiting Bolshevists were treated to a ceremonial tour around the historic old city. Then they sat down to arrange details whereby 800,000 Ukrainians and White Russians in German-occupied territory would be handed over to the "Bolshevistic terror" in exchange for 100,000 Germans in Russian-occupied Poland who would return to the Nazi homeland.

*Report had it last week that numerous bands of Polish guerrillas actively resisting the German Government necessitated calling out four German divisions for "cleaning up" operations.

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