I Became Gauleiter In 1927.

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 The French.

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.

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 German Intellectual Worker.

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 Had To Examine Myself Very Thoroughly To Find The Right Path Personally.