40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan - March 14, 2019

40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII
Hans Frank, left, and his son Niklas. SBS

37. Hans Frank’s Kids

Hans Frank’s children, the one who went the furthest in rejecting their father was the youngest, Niklas. Upon growing up, Niklas became a journalist for Stern magazine and West Germany’s Playboy. Over time, the more he learned of his father, the more he came to hate the man. In 1987, he published In the Shadow of the Reich, a book that stirred controversy in Germany for the unprecedented manner in which he savaged the memory of his father, whom he described as a “slime hole of a Hitler fanatic“.

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