I'm a sailor, not a politician.

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

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.

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

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

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.