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

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

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

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

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.

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 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.