Fritz Sauckel — German Soldier born on October 27, 1894, died on October 16, 1946

Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Thuringia and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from 1942 until the end of the Second World War... (wikipedia)

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