I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

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

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.

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

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

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.