Quotes from Fritz Sauckel

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

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

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

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

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.

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

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

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

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.

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

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

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

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.

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.