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.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

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.

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

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters.