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For the actor of the same name, see Walter Frank (actor).
Walter Frank (1900-1945) was a Nazi historian, notable for his leading role in anti-Semitic research.[1][2][1]
In his youth, he attended Julius Streicher rallies. Later, he studied at the University of Munich under known pro-hitlerite and anti-semites, Alexander von Müller and Adolf Stoecker.[2] He was increasingly active in the Nazi movement, and published many anti-semitic works. Director of National Institut for the History of New Germany (Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, also sometimes referred to as 'Frank's Institute') from its opening in 1935, whose goal was to create a new, proper, Nazi historiography and study the 'Jewish question' (this area had its own subinstitute from 1936).[3][1][2] A protegee of Alfred Rosenberg, one of Nazism chief ideologues.[3] Notable Nazi historians working in the Institute included Karl Alexander von Müller, Erich Marks and Heinrich von Srbik. He committed suicide in 1945[2]
[edit] See also
- Wilhelm Grau and his Institut zur Erforschung der Judenfrage
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b Pieter M. Judson, Marsha L. Rozenblit, Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, Berghahn Books, 2005, ISBN ISBN 1571811761, Google Print, p.224, 235
- ^ a b c Martin Gilbert, Max Weinreich, Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People, Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0300053878, Google Print, p.45-50
- ^ a b Karl Dietrich Erdmann. Ed. by Jurgen Kocka et al. Trans. by Alan Nothnagle., Towards a global community of historians; the International Historical Congresses and the International Committee of Historical Sciences 1898-2000., Berghahn Books, 2005, ISBN 1-57181-434-5, Google Print, p.170
[edit] Further reading
- Helmut Heiber, Walter Frank und sein Reichsinstitut fur Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands, (Stuttgart, 1966).
