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

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

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

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 dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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.

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.