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

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

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.

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

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.