Fritz Sauckel
Fritz Sauckel
Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckelwas a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth27 October 1894
CountryGermany
absolute citizen elected government national
The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.
became career ill impossible obtained permission provide saw
When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.
government decree diets
The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.
attitude political today
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
long may dieting
I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.
path right-path
I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.
hate yield might
Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.
sailor politician
I'm a sailor, not a politician.
goebbels himmler fellows
Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.
views numbers political
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
intercourse personal-relationships regard
As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
boys sailing cabins
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
communist states knows
In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.
party leader proud
I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.