German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
He ran the machinery that fed German factories with slave labor. As Hitler's labor czar from 1942, Fritz Sauckel deported five million people from occupied Europe into forced work — by coercion, by quota, by whatever it took to keep the war machine running.
Born in Bavaria in 1894, Sauckel worked as a seaman and spent the First World War interned in France. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and built the organization in Thuringia, becoming Gauleiter there in 1927 and Reichsstatthalter in 1933 when Hitler took power. In March 1942 he was named General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment under Göring's Four Year Plan, a role that put him in charge of extracting workers from conquered territories to meet Germany's industrial demands. Over the next three years he oversaw the deportation of some five million people into forced labor, often through br…
Sourced, dated quotes from Fritz Sauckel
What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.
Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.
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.
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.
I never burned down synagogues. It was a revolution, and Russians burned churches during their revolution.
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