 The 11.000 votes he got were however not sufficient for a seat in the parliament.Because of his pacifist attitude which aimed at the reconciliation of nations, he was taunted, detained and banned from writing by the Nazis.In 1933, he was detained for a short period, and signed a declaration to drop the pacifist outlook of the journal Lotsenrufe he published (in 1939, it was completely banned by the Nazis), but remained unbroken, which can be seen from his speech for the defence, which was posthumously published in fragments.