the deployment of 13,000 soldiers and summary executions of civilians suspected of supporting the partisans, the Germans were unable to destroy the partisan brigade and falsely concluded that the threat had been eliminated. Trial and execution Frank was arrested by U.S. Army troops in the area of Rokycany on 9 May 1945. He was extradited to the People's Court in Prague and tried in 1946. After being convicted of war crimes and the destruction of Lidice and Ležáky, Frank was sentenced to death. He was hanged on 22 May 1946 in the courtyard of the Pankrác Prison in Prague, before 5,000 onlookers. He was buried in an anonymous pit at Prague's Ďáblice cemetery. Personal life Frank was married twice. On 21 January 1925 he married Anna Müller (born 5 January 1899 in Karlsbad). The couple had two sons Harald, born 20 January 1926, and Gerhard, born 22 April 1931. They divorced on 17 February 1940 and later that year, Müller married Frank's successor as deputy Gauleiter of Sudetenland, SA-Brigadeführer Dr. Fritz Köllner. On 14 April 1940 Frank remarried a physician, Karola Blaschek (born 13 August 1913 in Brüx). The couple had three children together, two daughters Edda, (born 16 August 1941) and Holle-Sigrid (born 8 March 1944), and a son Wolf-Dietrich (born 20 August 1942). References Bibliography Further reading External links 1898 births 1946 deaths People from Karlovy Vary People from the Kingdom of Bohemia German Bohemian people German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia) politicians Sudeten German Party politicians Nazi Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939) Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia SS and Police Leaders SS-Obergruppenführer Waffen-SS personnel 20th-century Freikorps personnel Holocaust perpetrators in Bohemia and Moravia Heads of government who were later imprisoned People extradited to Czechoslovakia Nazis executed by Czechoslovakia by hanging Charles University alumni