On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased
War is not a thing one wants.
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.