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Poster offering a reward of 100,000 German marks for the head of the Nazi war criminal Fritz Sauckel - the responsible for the forced labor system in the German Reich - 100,000 Mark Belohnung! Nächtlicher Frauenmord! - “Reward of 100,000 marks! Nighttime murder of women!” A rare leaflet offering a reward of 100,000 marks for the capture of the Nazi war criminal Fritz Sauckel, with his photograph. Printed in the 1940s before he was captured and before he was brought to trial in the Nuremberg Trials. Printed on one side on a red background. German. The leaflet reports the crimes of Sauckel: “Every night 56 women are murdered. The murderer is called Fritz Sauckel, Gauleiter and Reich Governor in Thuringia, the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment. Sauckel murders by forcing German women and girls to work at night, exhausting them to such an extent that they fall victim to workplace accidents as a result of exhaustion. In October 1942, according to the Reich accident statistics, there were 236,700 workplace accidents involving female workers, of which 187,360 occurred between 6 in the evening and 6 in the morning. Of the 187,360 women injured in night work, 1,736 lost their lives. That is, 56 women every night. Every night 56 women are murdered by Sauckel. The murderer of women, Sauckel, must be stopped!”. Some believe that the leaflet was issued by the Allies in order to capture Sauckel, prevent him from disappearing, and bring him to trial toward the end of the war. However, based on the relatively “mild” accusation of employing German girls who fall victim to exhaustion, while making no mention of his senior role as the official with unlimited authority over the Reich’s labor force, and the man who was responsible for the murder of thousands in the death trains - it is possible that the poster was printed in Nazi Germany by underground German resistance movements, and not necessarily by the Allies, who would presumably have mentioned the far more serious crimes he committed had they been the ones publishing such a leaflet. Fritz Sauckel [1894 - Nuremberg 1946] was the chief person responsible for the enslavement of millions in forced labor during the years of the Second World War. On March 21, 1942, he was appointed to the position of “General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment with unlimited authority, ” on the recommendation of the Minister of Armaments Albert Speer, and was subject to direct orders from Adolf Hitler. Sauckel was the man who headed the system that exploited millions of forced laborers in the countries occupied by Nazi Germany, conducting manhunts in cities and villages, cramming the captured Jews into railway cars, and transporting them to munitions factories where they worked long hours each day, under a cruel regime, in conditions of hunger, neglected clothing, harsh weather conditions, and physical and mental abuse that led to their deaths. Sauckel was brought to trial as a war criminal in the Nuremberg Trials. He was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning and waging aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. He was hanged in Nuremberg on October 16, 1946. 15x10.5 cm. A tear with loss at the upper right, without affecting the text. Good condition.