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EXTRACT FROM
DOCUMENT NI-406
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT
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EXTRACT FROM AN INTERROGATION OF HJALMAR SCHACHT,
20 JULY 1945
CONCERNING THE HITLER-GOERING-SCHACHT
MEETING WITH GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS
BEFORE THE
REICHSTAG ELECTION OF MARCH 1933* |
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Q. [By Clifford Hynning] : Let us then direct our attention to
February and March 1933. I have been told by Goering and by Funk and Baron von
Schnitzler, and also by Thyssen, that there was a meeting held in the house of
Goering of certain prominent German industrialists at which you were also
present in 1933. This was after Hitler became Chancellor but before the
elections of that spring. Hitler came into the meeting and made a short speech
and left. Then, according to the testimony of Funk, you passed the hat. You
asked the industrialists to support the Nazi Party financially to the tune of
approximately 7, 8, 9, or 10 million marks. Do you recall that?
A. [By
Hjalmar Schacht] : I recall that meeting very well. And I have answered the
same question to Major Tilley. It must be in one of my former memorandums or in
the hearings done by Major Tilley. As far as I remember, the meeting was not in
Goering's house, but in some hotel room I think, or some other more public
room. After Hitler had made his speech, the old Krupp von Bohlen answered
Hitler and expressed the unanimous feeling of the industrialists to support
Hitler. After that I spoke for the financial part only, not on political
principles or intentions. And the amount which I collected was 3 million marks.
The apportionment among the industrialists was made not by me but by
themselves, and the payments afterwards were made to the bank of Delbrueck
Schickler. The books will certainly show the amounts which were paid in, and
which went to the Party. I had nothing to do with that account. I just played
the role of cashier or financial treasurer at the meeting itself.
Q.
Were there any representatives of any of the large banks or insurance
enterprises at the meeting?
A. I would say that almost nobody had been
left out. All the prominent industrialists and bankers must have been
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| Interrogation ended at 4:35. |
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* Schacht was not called as
a witness in the Farben case.
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