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...Onetime Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's wily old financial wizard, got a foothold in Germany again. Turned down by the Hamburg Senate when he applied for permission to found a banking firm there (TIME, Aug. 4). Schacht managed to get a license to operate in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, appeared confident that sooner or later he would win his Hamburg permit...
...lipped, stiff-necked Dr. (of economics) Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht,* the seeming epitome of bankerly rectitude, has always known how to land right side up. Under Kaiser Wilhelm II he was an ardent nationalist; when the Weimar Republic was popular, he was an ardent Democrat and president of the Reichsbank; when Hitler's strength grew, he became an ardent Nazi: "I met Hitler and told...
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, onetime boss of the Reichsbank (and a convicted "major Nazi offender" released last fortnight by a German appeals court) got cautiously astride the Marshall Plan fence: "I rejoice over the willingness of the American people to help Germany ... To live from alms kills a man's dignity...
Night after night in Frankfurt, U.S. Army trucks had been backing up to the Reichsbank, then driving off with loads of heavy wooden cases cryptically marked "Clay" and "Bird Dog." Officially, what was in the cases was a secret. Said one G.I. truckman to another after a week of it: "They can't fool me. Know what we're carrying in them boxes? Ammunition for the Israelites!" His companion replied: "It's ammo all right, but something tells me it's going to the A-rabs...
...hard to believe as his continued survival through a dozen years of intraparty intrigue. As far back as 1938, German bigwigs planned their first Putsch. In on the deal, according to Gisevius, were Chief of Staff Franz Haider, General Erwin von Witzleben and a string of other generals. Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Major General Hans Oster (the brains of Wehrmacht counterintelligence) and Author Gisevius himself were among the conspirators. The calendar, he says, explains why the plot failed. Putsch day was set to coincide with the march on Czechoslovakia. But Munich intervened-Nazi Germany had won a war without firing...