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.

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

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

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

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

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