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

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

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

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

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