Niklas Frank is a German author and journalist best known for an intimate and strongly accusatory book about his father, Hans Frank, the Nazi lawyer who became Governor-General of occupied Poland during World World War World War II
Background
Niklas Frank was born in Munich on 9 March 1939 to Hans Frank and Brigitte Herbst as the youngest of five siblings. When Niklas was about eight months old, his father was appointed Hitler"s "Governor-General" of the Polish rump state. Niklas grew up in Cracow, Poland.
He was seven years old when his father received the death penalty and was executed (16 October 1946).
Education
Niklas studied German literature, sociology, and history, and became a journalist, working for the German edition of Playboy and for the weekly "Der Stern." Over the course of the years, his initial embarrassment of his father developed into a "burning, obsessive hatred" as he uncovered minute details of his father"s life during a 40-year search.
Career
In this position, Hans Frank became responsible for the Nazi policy of enslaving the Poles and exterminating the Polish Jews. His mother died in 1959. In the early 1990s, Frank was still working as a journalist, after a distinguished career during which he interviewed, among others, the Polish trade-union leader, Lech Walesa.
Niklas Frank appears as himself in the 1993 television documentary Personenbeschreibung and also in the 2012 film, Hitler"s Children.