Word: schacht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving nightmare of the Nazi Götterdämmerung, Goerdeler's disappearance could just as well...
...Himmler's strong-arm squads were arresting civilians as well as army officers. Among civilians jailed, perhaps shot: former Nazi Minister for Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, former Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath...
...crash of 1929 his world came unstuck. In May 1931 followed the failure of the Credit Anstalt in Austria. In September 1931 Britain herself was driven off gold. Desperately Norman tried to glue his world together. He worked with New York. He journeyed to Berlin to see Hjalmar Schacht. And steadily Montagu Norman the man became Montagu Norman the legend...
...from 1919 to 1940 Coudenhove-Kalergi might have been found in any one of a dozen European capitals, now plucking the sleeve of the sympathetic Aristide Briand, now arguing his case for a federated Europe with noncommittal Englishmen, sometimes going so far as to lobby Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht or Benito Mussolini...
...present generation has seen this mystery in its darkest phase. It has seen the franc bloat and the mark blow up. It has seen Montagu Norman claw his way up from devaluation to set the pound on gold at the sacred rate of $4.86½. It has seen Hjalmar Schacht counter with moneys designed to fit every purse and purpose. It has listened to the jargon of scores of theories. And it has rightly suspected that all this confusion had much to do with unemployment...