German - Soldier | October 27, 1894 - October 16, 1946
I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.
Fritz Sauckel
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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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The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.
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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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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.
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As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
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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.
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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.
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I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.
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I became Gauleiter in 1927.
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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.
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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.
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