As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

I became Gauleiter in 1927.