The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

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

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

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.

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

Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.