Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.