I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

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.

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

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

I had repeatedly made written requests to the Fuehrer that I might be allowed to join the Wehrmacht as an ordinary soldier. He refused to give me this permission.