Fritz Sauckel Quotes

• 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.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conditions, Political, Problems

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Addition, Earned

• 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.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Unions, Various

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Relationships

• At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definitely, Secret, Everything

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proud, Fact, Social

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Attended

• I became Gauleiter in 1927.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Became

• I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Soldier, Refuses, Honour

• I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Character, Generally

• I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Written, Permission, Ordinary

• I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Personally

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definitely, After

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Election, Same

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Member, Existed

• I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Informed, Advance, Political

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Actually, Arrested

• It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happened, Prisoner

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

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Connection, Official

• Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fundamentally, Beautiful, Nation

Fritz Sauckel (26)

Birth:	27th October, 1894
Death:	16th October, 1946
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Politician

About

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.

Related Authors

• Jan Egeland
• Thomas Reed
• Baron Paul Hill
• Peter Garrett
• Michael Foot
• Sir Charles Sedley
• Mike Ferguson
• William Henry Moody
• Vicente Fox
• Vaclav Havel

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 15th June

Births

• 1950 - Lakshmi Mittal
• 1970 - Leah Remini
• 1949 - Simon Callow
• 1965 - Rick Larsen
• 1924 - Ezer Weizman

Deaths

• 1968 - Amelia Josephine Burr
• 1968 - Wes Montgomery
• 1941 - Evelyn Underhill
• 1844 - Thomas Campbell
• 1899 - Richard Parks Bland