Fritz Sauckel

Ernst Friedrich Christoph Fritz Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

He was born in Hafurt , the only child of a postman and a seamstress. Sauckel was educated at local schools and left early when his mother fell ill. He joined the merchant marine of Norway and Sweden when he was 15, first on a Norwegian threemasted schooner, and later on Swedish and German vessels. He went on to sail throughout the world, rising to the rank of Vollmatrose . At the outbreak of World War I, he was on a German vessel en route to Australia when the vessel was captured. He was subsequently interned in France from August 1914 until November 1919.

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