The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

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.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.