Sauckel, Fritz

Sauckel, Fritz

▪ German Nazi politician
born Oct. 27, 1894, Hassfurt, Ger.
died Oct. 16, 1946, Nürnberg

      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 in France. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and became one of its leading propagandists in Lower Franconia. He became the Nazi gauleiter of Thuringia in 1927 and subsequently served as minister of the interior and commissioner of that region.

      From 1942 to 1945 during World War II, Sauckel was chief commissioner for the utilization of manpower and met Hitler's request for greater industrial production by rounding up slave labourers for use in Germany's factories. Traveling through Nazi-occupied territories in Europe, he recruited slave labour by force and ruthlessly exploited their capacity for work. After the war he was brought to trial at Nürnberg (Nürnberg trials) before the International Military Tribunal along with other Nazi leaders. He was found guilty on Oct. 1, 1946, of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was sentenced to hang. In the verdict Sauckel was described as being in charge of a program involving the deportation for slave labour of 5,000,000 people under cruel and insufferable conditions.

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