The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

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.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

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

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.

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