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

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

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

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

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

I became Gauleiter in 1927.