Karl Hermann Frank - War criminal.
Karl Hermann Frank - War criminal. On the 22nd of May 1946 Karl Hermann Frank was hanged in public as a war criminal at Prague’s Pankrác Prison. Czechoslovakia still used the Austro-Hungarian poll hanging method at this time. Kurt Daluege and Frank ordered the destruction of the Czech villages of Lidice and Ležáky in retaliation for Reinhard Heydrich's assassination. In Lidice, Frank ordered the shooting of all the men, sending the women to concentration camps, and the murders of many of the children. A few were sent to live with SS families in Germany. Here is the Associated press report of the execution, published on May 23, 1946 “FRANK IS HANGED FOR LIDICE CRIME. Eight thousand spectators, including widows of the men slaughtered at Lidice, watched without pity as Karl Hermann Frank was hanged in Pankrác Prison courtyard for having been chiefly responsible for the massacre. Those of Lidice’s widows who were able to come and widows of the 30,000 other Czechs for...