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

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

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 Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

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.