Through the Young Men’s Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries.

I’m a sailor, not a politician.

What would you do if your country’s welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

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.

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.