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

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.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

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

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 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.