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Ernst Friedrich Christoph „Fritz“ Sauckel byl německý nacista, který organizoval systematické nasazování obyvatel z obsazeného území Třetí říší.

Sauckel se narodil v Haßfurtu roku 1894. Jeho otec byl listonoš a matka švadlena. Poté co jeho matka onemocněla, musel zanechat školy. V patnácti letech nastoupil k obchodnímu námořnictvu. Nejdříve na švédském škuneru, později na norských a německých lodích. Při vypuknutí první světové války se plavil do Austrálie. Poté co byla loď zajata, byl využit jako asistent ve Francii v srpnu 1914 až listopad 1918.

Po válce se navrátil do Německa. V roce 1923 vstoupil do NSDAP. V roce 1924 si za ženu bere Elisabeth Wetzel, se kterou měl deset dětí. V roce 1927 se stal župním vedoucím v Durynsku. Od roku 1929 předsedou poslaneckého klubu NSDAP. V květnu 1933 získal post říšského místodržitele.

Teprve 21. března 1942 byl, na doporučení Alberta Speera, jmenován generálním zmocněncem pro distribuci pracovních sil. Zde měl na starosti dostávat do Německa tolik pracovní síly, kolik bylo potřeba na pokrytí poptávky. Za jeho vedení bylo do Německa deportováno cca 5 milionů dělníků. Traduje se, že jeho praktiky byly maximálně násilné.

V Norimberském procesu byl odsouzen k trestu smrti oběšením, který byl vykonán 16. října 1946. Poslední slova která pronesl před smrtí zní: „Ich sterbe unschuldig, mein Urteil ist ungerecht. Gott beschütze Deutschland!“ . Wikipedia  

✵ 27. říjen 1894 – 16. říjen 1946
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“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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Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.

“Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“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.”

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Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.

“I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!”

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Last words, 10/16/46. Quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 566 - by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002.

“America is so big that it cries for work. In Germany, if you tried to find work, you couldn't. In America, it was a strange economy which caused unemployment. German unemployment was due to the boycott of German goods. Not an official boycott. The world market refused to accept German goods. France, England, and America refused. Germany had no colonies and she had to export manufactured goods for grain. We had nothing to speak of. We managed to live during the war by rations. We all lived on a strict ration - even ministers in the government like myself - and we lived on things from the conquered countries, including Africa and Russia.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History -

“I'm a sailor, not a politician.”

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Quoted in "Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador's Story" - Page 183 - by John E. Dolibois - Biography & Autobiography - 2001.

“Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“I had nothing to do with concentration camps - Himmler's work. There was a labor minister, Ley, whose position is like your John Lewis in America. My duties were to assign POW and foreign labor to factories or whatever work had to be done. I had nothing to do with punishment, criminals, and so forth. That's Himmler's work. If someone had told me as a seaman I should have engaged in politics I would have taken it as an insult. After my return from France, when I found the workers in the Schweinfurt factory all divided up into groups, many parties - I want to give you an honest reason - that's why I became a National Socialist. In 1922-23 I knew, by fate, I must find a solution to the labor and social problem.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“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.”

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March 14, 1943 speech to Gauleiters. Quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 513 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997.

“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children…with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.”

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1942. Quoted in "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" - Page 221 - by Albert Speer - 1970.

“I never burned down synagogues. It was a revolution, and Russians burned churches during their revolution. If there are many different nationalities in a country, the leadership should be divided among people by percentages. In finance, press, radio - the Jews had taken over positions. That feeling existed before Hitler.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“You must understand that the meaning of the word 'unemployed' in Germany is different than in America. In America, 'unemployed' means that a man may be unable to obtain work in his profession. In Germany it means he can't get work in any profession. In Thuringia there were 1.7 million people, of whom 500,000 men were unemployed in 1932 before Hitler came to power. In the whole of Germany, there were 8 million unemployed and 7 million half-time workers.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004.

“What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.”

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To Leon Goldensohn, February 9, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 209.

“Sauckel, the greatest and cruelest slaver since the pharaohs of Egypt, produced desperately needed manpower by driving foreign peoples into the land of bondage on a scale unknown even in the ancient days of tyranny in the kingdom of the Nile.”

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Robert H. Jackson.

“That man who is responsible for slave labor in Germany does not have my sympathy. I did not like the whole idea of what he did. After all, there are limits to what one can do with foreign populations in the forced labor business. In the first place, the whole idea is completely unproductive. One needs three or four men to watch one compulsory worker. Sauckel deserves the severest punishment.”

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Paul O. Schmidt to Leon Goldensohn, March 13, 1946.