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...Slave-labor Boss Fritz Sauckel: "I would like to communicate with my family. Is it all right...
...Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German war production. Of the 24 not more than half were Prussians...
...beginning Pierre Laval promised 250,000 French workers to Germany. Reich Manpower Commissioner Fritz Sauckel demanded more. Laval's police and German troopers have raided factories, cafes, theaters and other places for able-bodied men, then herded them into freight cars for shipment abroad. Last week Laval took the most extreme step yet: he drafted 21-year-old Frenchmen working on Nazi fortifications in France for jobs inside Germany...
...German Labor Commissioner Fritz Sauckel demanded the conscription of 150,000 Frenchmen to work on the Mittelmeerwall (Mediterranean Wall), the defensive fortifications which are supposed to extend from Spain to Alexandroupolis near the border of Turkey...
...allowed the Government to assign labor to any task "necessary to the national interest." Although the negotiations with the Nazis were so tense that Chief of Government Pierre Laval was said to have collapsed and left the conference, he had apparently reached a compromise with German Labor Commissioner Joseph Sauckel. Vichyfrance could have another try at filling the demand for 150,000 more French workers from volunteers in an exchange for war prisoners. So far, despite severe pressure, only 17,000 workers had volunteered...