In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

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

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

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.

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.

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