Fritz Sauckel Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

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 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.

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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.

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.