Daily Inspiration Quote by Hans Frank

There is a technocrat's chill in the phrase "also my idea": the casual self-credit taken for dismantling a legislature is delivered with the tone of someone proposing a minor procedural fix. Hans Frank is not describing a coup; he's describing an organizational tweak. That rhetorical move is the point. By framing the Reichstag as "gradually fading into the background", he launders coercion into inevitability. Power doesn't get seized here, it merely "fades" from one institution to another, as if history itself were reassigning responsibilities.

The key substitution is bureaucratic theater: "advisory committees of the Academy" replacing "legal committees" of an elected body. The subtext is that expertise (or what the regime labels expertise) can be used to eclipse representation. An "Academy" sounds neutral, learned, above politics. A "Reichstag" evokes votes, debate, accountability. Frank's language is a primer in authoritarian modernization: keep the paperwork, swap the source of legitimacy.

Context sharpens the intent. As the Nazi state consolidated power, the Reichstag became ceremonial, while real lawmaking migrated to the executive and party apparatus, padded by compliant jurists and commissions that could stamp ideological goals with legal form. Frank, a central legal architect of the regime, is signaling authorship in that migration. The sentence is incriminating not because it boasts, but because it normalizes: democracy isn't attacked; it's administratively outcompeted, then forgotten.