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.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

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