“I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.”
– Fritz Sauckel
“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.”
– Fritz Sauckel
“I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.”
– Fritz Sauckel
“I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.”
– Fritz Sauckel
“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”
– Fritz Sauckel
“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.”
– Fritz Sauckel