As A Cabin Boy On A Norwegian

Although As A Sailor I Despised Politics - For I Loved My Sailor's Life And Still Love It Today - Conditions Forced Me To Take Up A Definite Attitude Towards Political Problems.

As Regards Personal Relationships I Cannot Say That I Had Any Particularly Personal Intercourse With Anyone.

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.

I Did That All The More, If I May Say So, Because I Was Aware Of The Fact That There Is An Inclination To Go To Extremes In German People, And In The German Character Generally.

My Connection With The Reich Ministers Was Of A Purely Official Nature And Was Very Infrequent.