I Was Member Of The

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.

The Dissolution Of The Trade Unions Was In The Air Then.

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.

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

I'm A Sailor, Not A Politician.