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    Fritz Sauckel

    German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal

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  1. Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

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  2. Apr 5, 2024 · Fritz Sauckel (born Oct. 27, 1894, Hassfurt, Ger.—died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg) was a Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler’s chief recruiter of slave labour during World War II. While Sauckel was serving as a seaman during World War I, his ship was captured by the British, and he spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner

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  3. Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946) was Plenipotentiary General for the Deployment of Labor. Sauckel was responsible for providing forced laborers to meet Germany's increasing war production needs. Under his authority, the Germans deported millions of forced laborers from the occupied territories to Germany.

  4. Jan 18, 2021 · Coming from pretty humble origins - being the only child of a postman and seamstress - it’s unlikely that Ernst Friedrich Christoph “Fritz” Sauckel, ever imagined, while a child, that he would grow up to be a slave owner.

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  6. Sauckel was born at Hassfurt am Main on October 27, 1894, the son of a post office clerk. He spent the years before World War I working in the Norwegian and Swedish merchant navies. During the war, he was interned in a French prisoner of war camp, and he later worked in a factory. An early Nazi (he joined the party in 1921), Sauckel was ...

  7. Ernst Friedrich Christoph " Fritz " Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment ( Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

  8. Fritz Sauckel was an early member of the NSDAP and an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler. Beginning in the 1920s he steadily rose up through the ranks of the NSDAP in the state of Thuringia. In 1927 he became regional leader (Gauleiter) and in 1932 a leading secretary of state (Staatsminister) in Germany’s first National Socialist government.

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