Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

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

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.

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

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

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

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