Although As A Sailor I Despised Politics

I Had Repeatedly Made Written Requests To The Fuehrer That I Might Be Allowed To Join The Wehrmacht As An Ordinary Soldier. He Refused To Give Me This Permission.

As A Cabin Boy On A Norwegian Sailing Ship I Earned Five Kronen A Week In Addition To My Keep.

In My Gau, As Far As I Know, Only Communists Who Had Actually Worked Against The State Were Arrested.

Many Years Before, I Had Left A Beautiful Country And A Rich Nation And I Returned To That Country Six Years Later To Find It Fundamentally Changed And In A State Of Upheaval, And In Great Spiritual And Material Need.

It So Happened That I Was On A German Sailing Vessel On The Way To Australia When The Ship Was Captured, And On The High Seas I Was Made Prisoner By The French.