Socialist Workers' Party of Germany
Fauth was born in Dresden. As a school student, he gravitated to left-wing socialist circles close to the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany. In summer 1933, shortly before he was to take his school graduating exams, he was arrested after it was found he had written to a French friend about Hitler's new government, describing it as a "band of criminals" and warning that Hitler was preparing for war. In winter 1933, the case against him was struck down. On his release, he fled to Prague, but then returned to his parents in Germany.