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

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

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

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.

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.

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