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.
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As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
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Birth: | 27th October, 1894 |
Death: | 16th October, 1946 |
Nationality: | German |
Profession: | Politician |
Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was born in Haßfurt, Germany. He was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War. He was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and was sentenced to death by hanging. He studied engineering in Ilmenau from 1922 to 1923.
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