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Summer 2022 Militaria Auction
Lot 295:
Private taken photo of Gauleiter "Fritz" Sauckel visiting Wehrmacht troops in the front in January 1940. Photo is signed by Sauckel himself. Postcard size. Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War. Sauckel was among the 24 persons accused in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced to death, and executed by hanging.************This article is sent from our office in Europe**********
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