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.

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

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

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

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

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.