Fritz Sauckel
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Oct 24, 2026
Dan SnowNARRATOR
So he turned for help to an old acquaintance.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Fritz Sauckel, Germany's Minister of Labor.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
Sauckel responded by drafting in millions of people from the territories that Germany had conquered to keep Speer's war effort on track.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
They were slave workers.
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Dan SnowNARRATOR
The main case against Speer rested on his brutal employment of millions of slaves by the factories under his control.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
On this count, Hitler's former architect was vulnerable, especially when evidence was produced proving he had been present at various meetings when the use of slave labor was discussed.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
As he'd not personally been responsible for shipping them in, Speer told the prosecution it was not his job to question the methods employed by his co-defendant, Fritz Sauckel, then Minister of Labour.
speaker_19SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Speer was quite prepared to see Sauckel hang, and Sauckel, under interrogation, said of Speer, there is a man you should hang.
Geoffrey LawrenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Defendant Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
Geoffrey LawrenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Fritz Sauckel, death by hanging.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
This was justice.
Dan SnowNARRATOR
[dramatic music] But for some, especially survivors of the Holocaust, it wasn't enough.
Geoffrey LawrenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Defendant Baldur von Schirach, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the Tribunal sentences you to twenty years imprisonment.
Geoffrey LawrenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Defendant Fritz Sauckel, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
Geoffrey LawrenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Defendant Alfred Jodl, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
Geoffrey LawrenceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Defendant Arthur Seyss-Inquart, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted, the Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Zill was replaced in April 1943 by Max Koegel after being judged ineffective as a commandant.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The move followed letters of complaint to General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, Fritz Sauckel, from the villagers about the high standards of living enjoyed by camp guards and their wives in contrast to the impoverished standards in the village, as well as a culture of corruption amongst the guards.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In August 1943, Zill was transferred to the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division, Prinz Eugen, which was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, which from 1942 to 1945 fought a counter-insurgency campaign against Communist-led Yugoslav partisan resistance forces in occupied Yugoslavia.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The Waffen-SS was the military branch of the SS.
speaker_0HOST
Between 14th of November 1945 and 3rd of October 1946, the Allied groups created an International Military Tribunal, or IMT, to try 22 Nazi war criminals and six groups for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
speaker_0HOST
It is documented that 19 of the 22 were convicted, and 12, Martin Bormann, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Göring, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner , Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur C. Quartz, and Julius Streicher were given the death penalty.
speaker_0HOST
Three of them, Walter Funk, Rudolf Hess, Erich Raeder, received life terms, with the remaining four, Karl Dönitz, Konstantin von Jurath, Albert Speer, and Baldur von Sirach, being handed down prison sentences with a shorter length.
speaker_0HOST
One key figure who was not mentioned on this list was that of the Gestapo leader, Heinrich Müller, who was never tried after disappearing at the end of the war.