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.
From Fritz Sauckel
I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.
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.
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.
My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.
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