Fritz Sauckel quotes - page 2

Fritz Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, best known as the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment during World War II. He oversaw the forced recruitment and exploitation of millions of foreign workers for the German war effort. He was convicted of war crimes and executed after the Nuremberg Trials. Here are 38 of his quotes:

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.

Fritz Sauckel

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

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My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

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As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

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In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

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I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

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I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

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One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

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I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

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I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

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The defendant Sauckel, Plenipotentiary General for the Utilization of Labor, is authority for the statement that "out of 5,000,000 foreign workers who arrived in Germany, not even 200,000 came voluntarily." It was officially reported to defendant Rosenberg that in his territory "recruiting methods were used which probably have their origin in the blackest period of the slave trade." Sauckel himself reported that male and female agents went hunting for men, got them drunk, and "shanghaied" them to Germany. These captives were shipped in trains without heat, food, or sanitary facilities. The dead were thrown out at stations, and the newborn were thrown out the windows of moving trains. Sauckel ordered that "all the men must be fed, sheltered, and treated in such a way as to exploit them to the highest possible extent at the lowest conceivable degree of expenditure."

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