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Frank participated in the growth of the politics leading to genocide in Poland. Under his guidance mass murder became a deliberate policy. | Frank participated in the growth of the politics leading to genocide in Poland. Under his guidance mass murder became a deliberate policy. | ||
The General Government was the location of four out of six extermination camps, namely: Bełżec, [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]], Majdanek and Sobibór; | The General Government was the location of four out of six extermination camps, namely: Bełżec, [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]], Majdanek and Sobibór; | ||
Chełmno and [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] fell just outside the borders of the General Government. | |||
Frank later claimed that [[the Holocaust]] was entirely controlled by [[Heinrich Himmler]] and the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'', and he - Frank - was unaware of the extermination camps in the General Government until early 1944, a claim found to be untrue by the Nuremberg tribunal. | Frank later claimed that [[the Holocaust]] was entirely controlled by [[Heinrich Himmler]] and the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'', and he - Frank - was unaware of the extermination camps in the General Government until early 1944, a claim found to be untrue by the Nuremberg tribunal. | ||