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

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

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

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 had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.