I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

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 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.

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

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

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.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.