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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. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#fuehrer #give #give me #had #i

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#find #had #i #myself #path

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#elected #election #every #i #parliamentary

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#existed #i #long #may #member

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#advance #developments #foreign #i #informed

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#against #arrested #as far as #communists #far

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#captured #french #german #happened #high

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#beautiful country #before #changed #country #find

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#infrequent #ministers #nature #official #purely

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#citizen #elected #government #majority #national