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.

Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

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

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 Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.