In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

I was not a member of the SS.

At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.