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'm a sailor, not a politician.

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

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.

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 attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

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