One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the Ger….

I'm a sailor, not a politician..

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under….

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Na….

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….

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep..

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone..

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent..

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….

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments..

In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested..

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 thi….

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 l….

In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me ….

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!.

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 oth….

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows..

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 ….

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain..

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 a….

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally..