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.

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.

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.

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.

I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.

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.