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August Frank
August Frank served as deputy chief of the WVHA and head of Amtsgruppe A. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Berlin · concentration-camp system · occupied Poland through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- He served as Oswald Pohl’s deputy in the WVHA and headed Amtsgruppe A. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
- The tribunal found that he had actively and directly participated in the slave-labor program. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
- His directive of 26 September 1942 regulated the transfer of money, valuables, dental gold, clothing and other property looted in Action Reinhardt. (Institut für Zeitgeschichte — Die Quellen sprechen)
- He was convicted on counts II, III and IV in the Pohl trial. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Frank’s responsibility is documented in administrative and financial acts that integrated slave labor and the looting of victims’ property into WVHA operations. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project; Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project; Institut für Zeitgeschichte — Die Quellen sprechen; Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
Key events and mechanisms
- Became chief of WVHA Amtsgruppe A and Pohl’s deputy in 1942. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
- Issued the 26 September 1942 directive on the distribution of property looted in Action Reinhardt. (Institut für Zeitgeschichte — Die Quellen sprechen)
- Was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in the SS in the Pohl trial. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The Pohl tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment; the sentence was later commuted to fifteen years. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
Limits of the evidence
The tribunal expressly found insufficient evidence to hold Frank legally responsible for the murders themselves. This profile separates that finding from his convictions for slave labor and wholesale looting. (Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project; Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project; Institut für Zeitgeschichte — Die Quellen sprechen; Harvard Law School Library — Nuremberg Trials Project)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.