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

The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.

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

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 could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

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.