My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

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.

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 did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

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