“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”

“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”

“I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.”

“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”

“I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.”

“I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.”

“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 towards political problems.”