One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

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.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

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

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

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

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.