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.

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.

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

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

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.