Reiche, Fritz

By the time Fritz Sauckel took office in March 1942 to direct the Reich s slave-labor program, he was surprised to discover that I.G. Farben had already been "wildly recruiting foreign labor." As late as 1943 the Reich s Minister of Economics wrote to the... 

Before Fritz Sauckel took over the conscription of labor before Himmler committed the incredibly sadistic deeds that finally led him to suicide before Hitler announced for the Jews an extermination that was to spread like an instant fever to Poland and then to the whole of Europe before enforced labor of any kind was a Reich policy, foreigners and prisoners of war had already been enslaved, at Schmitz s direction, in the I.G. Farben plants. 

There s no twenty-first-century equivalent for the social status that came with military rank in Haber s Germany. Prussian officers were the heirs of the nation s founding fathers they, rather than civilian leaders, had unified the German Reich, and embodied honored German virtues of discipline and duty. The officer corps was both prestigious and exclusive At the time Fritz Haber entered military service, almost half the officers still came from aristocratic families. 

Schafer, Retc/ie] Schafer, Clemens Fritz Reiche 75 Jahre, Physikalische Blatter 14 (1958), p. 315-317. 

Eranck, Reiche, Helium] Franck, James/Fritz Reiche Uber Helium und Parahelium, Zeitschrift fiir Physik 1 (1920), p. 154-160. 

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