I became Gauleiter in 1927.

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.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

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.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

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