- Born
- January 24, 1898
- Died
- May 22, 1946 (aged 48)
- Known as
- politician, Holocaust perpetrator, bookseller, preceptor
Karl Hermann Frank was a Sudeten German official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia prior to and during World War II. Attaining the rank of Obergruppenführer, he was in command of the Nazi police apparatus in the protectorate, including the Gestapo, the SD, and the Kripo. After the war, he was tried, convicted and executed by hanging for his role in organizing the massacres of the people of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky.
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