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The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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Fritz Sauckel
Age: 51 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 27
Died: 1946
Died: October 16
German Politician
Politician
Air
Dissolution
Unions
Trade

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As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
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In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.
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I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.
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In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.
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I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.
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I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
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The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
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Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.
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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. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.
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I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.
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Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.
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Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.
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As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
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