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Fritz Sauckel
Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War, he oversaw the mobilization of forced labour for the benefit of the German war effort.
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politics · German Nazi politician (1894–1946) · politician · also Fritz Sauckel, Sauckel
Born 27 October 1894 · Died 16 October 1946 · Q77093
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1946· 5 entries
Died 1946-10-16.
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“I'm a sailor, not a politician.”
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Career landmark: Participated in International Military Tribunal (tournament / event).
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“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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“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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1942· 1 entry
Career landmark: General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (1942–1945).
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1941· 1 entry
“Opis: wypowiedziane w konferencji z 16 lipca 1941.”
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1927· 1 entry
And, following Hitler's appointment as chancellor, Reichsstatthalter in 1933; he would retain both positions until the end of the Nazi regime
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1924· 2 entries
The publisher of a small newspaper in Ilmenau, which in 1925 would merge with another paper and develop into the official organ of the Party in Thuringia, Der Nationalsozialist
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Married Elisabeth Wetzel, with whom he had ten children
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1923· 1 entry
And established himself as a leading party organiser in Thuringia
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1919· 1 entry
Joined the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, the largest and most influential antisemitic organization in Weimar Germany
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1914· 1 entry
Was on a German vessel en route to Australia when the vessel was captured by French naval forces
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1909· 1 entry
Without graduating when his mother fell ill
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-10-27.
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