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You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

They were willing to do anything to stop me.

I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

I was involved in some peaceful protests.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

I didn't kill innocent people.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.