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

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

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

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.

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

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