Hitler’s Minister of Laws and Terror: Wilhelm Frick
Nuremberg Trials: The Leaders of Nazi Germany
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He helped turn a fragile democracy into a dictatorship. As Reich Minister of the Interior (1933–1943) and later Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, Wilhelm Frick drafted and enforced the laws that dismantled civil liberties, outlawed political parties, and excluded Jews from German life—the legal framework that led to persecution, deportation, and mass murder. He oversaw measures tied to the Nuremberg Laws, the policing system, and policies that enabled the concentration camps and the “euthanasia” (T4) program.
After the war, Frick faced the International Military Tribunal. On October 1, 1946, he was convicted of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity (acquitted on conspiracy) and sentenced to death. He was hanged on October 16, 1946.
This film traces Frick’s rise from Bavarian police official to Hitler’s lawgiver, his role in engineering the Nazi state’s machinery of oppression, and his final judgment at Nuremberg—a stark warning to those who would use laws to destroy freedom.
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