Author: Fritz Sauckel

Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (born Oct. 27, 1894, Haßfurt, Germany; died Oct. 16, 1946) was a German politician of the Third-Reich era, Gauleiter of Thuringia from 1927, and the General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

Sauckel’s “Exploitation” Speech

Translated by Carlos W. Porter Introduction Most Nuremberg Trial documents have never been translated into English in their entirety. Typically, a single paragraph or even sentence is taken out of context, often mistranslated, to offer “proof” of German crimes. The rest of the document is ignored; the correctness of the translation is never questioned. For…

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