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.

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

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

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

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

I became Gauleiter in 1927.

In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.