On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

The numbers were better than we expected. We knew we were comparing against a strong August last year, up 11.2 percent, and we knew having one less Saturday in the month would have an effect.

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.