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Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

— 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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