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.

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

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.

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 dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

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