I became Gauleiter in 1927.

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.

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

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

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

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.