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.

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.

War is not a thing one wants.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

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

First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.