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Show 11 iSl'l A Reporter Cross-Examines Some Ghosts: Dr. Hjalmar Schacbt will again go to trial in a few weeks. He was lonvicted of being a tP"a""t sentenced to 10 years. The VPP Court reversed this decston and set bin, free. The Final Court has re- I versed the Vpfr Court i him brought back to tnal. If reporters report-ers were allowed to cross-examme snd ghosts could b, subpoenaed this is something you'd be likely to see: Question: What is your name? . . . Answer: Adolf Hitler. Q- Was Hjalmar Schacht a top Nazi' ... Hitler: When I lost I the July, 1932 elections, even before be-fore I took over, Schacht wrote me: "But what you could perhaps do, with in these days is a" word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried by so strong a truth . . . that victory cannot elude you for long. You can always count on me as your reliable assistant." as-sistant." Q- Did Schacht ever raise money for yon? . . . Hitler: By the millions mil-lions of marks. That was how I won the March, 1933, elections. q: Did he know what the money was for? . . . Hitler: Yes, I bluntly told the industrialists Schacht had brought to the meeting that I intended in-tended to destroy the parliamen- tary system in Germany, crush all internal opposition by force, build up the Wchrmacht and gain my objectives outside of Germany by the use of force. Q: And what was Schacht's reaction? re-action? . . . Hitler: He collected several million marks for me on the spot, following my speech. Q: Is there any official record of this? . . . Hitler: United States Documents, Nazi Aggression, Volume Vol-ume 2, Chapter 16, Page 741. Q: Herr Goebbels, did yon consider Hjalmar Schacht a top Nazi? . . . Goebbels: As early as Nov. 21, 1932, I made the following entry in my diary: "In a conversation with Dr. Schacht, I assured myself that he absolutely represents our point of view. He is one of the few who accepts the Fuehrer entirely." Schacht himself admits ad-mits this. Indeed, on Schacht's sixtieth birthday, I ordered the Voelkischer Beobachter, H. tier's official paper, to express ex-press Hitler's debt to Dr. Schacht. It did in this language: lan-guage: "In the critical period before 1933, Schacht never failed to point at Adolf Hitler as the only possible leader of the Reich." These questions, Mr. Prosecutor, are silly. They are established as war crimes exhibits (2409-P. S. and E. C. 499). Do Americans not read their own reoi ds? Q: Yours was so bad, Dr Goebbels, Goeb-bels, that it turned their stomachs in the first few pages and they couldn't finish it. That is all. Next witness. . . . Herr Goering, where did you get the money to rebuild the German army? . . . Answer: Dr. Schacht arranged it. He stole the savings of the German people by merely lending them to Hitler. I Schacht himself testified that he invented in-vented a system which "enabled ! the Reichsbank to lend by a subter- 1 fuge to the government what it normally or legally could not do." This is documented in the war trials (3728 P. S.). Not only that. Schacht boasted that he forced the opponents of Hitler to build his armaments by loaning their deposits de-posits to the Nazis. These are silly questions. Your own documents prove them. But if that isn't enough why call our ghosts to the stand when Dr. Schacht is alive? Q: Why do you suggest that? . . . Goering: As on-; of the greatest criminals of all time, my record would not be complete unless I ratted on my accomplices. I think the Nazis presented the most mag-n.flcent mag-n.flcent panorama of depravity in the world's history-as they coun-ter-accused each other from the witness stand. Q: Will the Court call Dr. Schacht? .. . . Dr. Schachti pease answer yes or no to the following T IT M the Le'PziS Fair, on March 4, 1935. did you say in a Public speech: "I assure yo'u "hat all 1 am doing and saying enjoys the absolute approval of the Fueh rer and that I would never do or say anything that does not have h.s approval"? . . . Schacht. v a public document, in your J! archives, No. EC 503. Q: JDid you tell the Pomeranian i Him |