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Show A Reporter Cross-Examines Some Ghosts: Or. Hialmar Schacht will again go to trial in a few weeks. He was convicted of being a top Nazi and sentenced to 10 years. The 'Ipper Court reversed tbis decision and set bim tree. Tbe Final Court bus reversed re-versed the Up"r Court and ordered bim brought back to trial. 1) reporters report-ers were allowed to cross-examine and ghosts could be subpoenaed this it 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 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 you? . . . Hitler: By the millions mil-lions of marks. That was how I won the March, 1933, e'eitions. Q: Did he know what the money was for? . . . Hit'cr: Yes, I bluntly told the industrialists Schacht had brought to tbe meeting that I intended in-tended to destroy the parliamentary parliamen-tary system in Germany, crush all internal opposition by force, build up the Wehrmacht and gain my objectives outside of Germany by the use of force. Q: And what was Schacht' 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 Goebbe's, did you consider Hjalmar Schacht a top Nazi? . . . Gocbbels: 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 Bcobachter, 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 be: ore 1933, Schacht never failed to point at Adolf H tier as the only possible leader of the Reich." These quest'ons, Mr. Prosecutor, are silly. They are established as war crimes exhibits (2409-P. S. and E. C. 499). Do Americans not read their own rect ds? Q: Yours was so bad, Dr. Goeb-bels, 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. Schacht himself testified that he invented in-vented a system which "enabled the Reichsbank to lend by a subterfuge subter-fuge to the government what it normally or legally could not do." This is documented in the war trials (3728 P. S.l. 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 crim nals of all time, my record would not be complete unless I ratted on my accomp ices. I think the Nazis presented the most magnificent mag-nificent panorama of depravity in the world's history as they counter-accused each other from the witness stand. Q: Will the Court call Dr. Schacht? . . . Dr. Schacht, please answer yes or no to the following questions: At the Leipzig Fair, on March 4, 1935. did you say in a public speech: "I assure you that all I am doing and saying enjoys the absolute approval of the Fuehrer Fueh-rer and that I would never do or say anything that does not have his approval"? . . Schacht: It is a public document, in your own archives, No. EC 503. Q: Did you tell the Pomeranian economic chamber in Stettin or January 9, 1936: ' "In Germany there is fortunately only one policy, to work with Hitler, for his goals are the highest satisfaction foi every member of the people's com inunity? . . . Schacht: Ja. Q:1 Did you unveil Hitler's bust at the Reichsbank on July 31, 1935, and did you say: "Germany stays or falls with the success of the policy of the Fnehrer"? . . . Schacht: Ja |