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In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

— Fritz Sauckel

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What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

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.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

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