I'm A Sailor, Not A Politician.

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.

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.

I Joined The Party Definitely In 1923 After Having Already Been In Sympathy With It Before.

I Am Very Proud Of The Fact That Many Workers In My Gau, Numerous Former Communists And Social Democrats Were Won Over By Us And Became Local Group Leaders And Party Functionaries.

The Controversies Between The Proletariat And The Middle Class Had To Be Smoothed Out And Bridged Over By Each Getting To Know And Understand The Other.