I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.
I became Gauleiter in 1927.
My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.
The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.
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.