NUREMBERG DEFENDANTS
Fritz Sauckel
Biography of Fritz Sauckel
Biographical Summary:
- merchant seaman
- 1914-1919 captured and interred by French
- factory worker
- 1923 early member of Nazi Party
- 1927 Gauleiter of Thuringia
- member of the Reichstag
- 1939 Reich Defense Commissioner Kassel District
- 1942-1945 Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labor
- directed Nazi Germany's slave labor system (4.8 million forced laborers mostly from eastern territories)
- third lowest score on Nuremberg defendants IQ tests: 118
Biographical summaries provided by Peter Vronsky. Peter teaches a course on the Third Reich at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada:
http://www.petervronsky.com/thirdreich.htm
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