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.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

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.

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