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

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

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

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.

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.

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