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...Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's financial wizard, who had broken with the regime and wound up in a concentration camp...
...days before the sentences most of the 21 defendants in the greatest criminal trial in world history had said their farewells to their wives: Emmy Göring, Frau von Ribbentrop, Frau Schacht, et al. Now, for those who had escaped death there was ahead a fast trip to prison. For the rest, the eleven who had been sentenced to death, there was the gallows, reportedly within two weeks "in the Nürnberg area...
...drew to an end. The courtroom was almost gay. French Associate Judge Robert Falco drew funny pictures which he passed from the bench down to his wife. In the dock, Builder Albert Speer was playing a game: he drew sketch after sketch of a new house for Banker Hjalmar Schacht (who rejected each version because the bathrooms were in the wrong place...
...oring, who had no illusions about his impending fate, was unmoved by the speech. But many of his fellow defendants -who had hoped to find refuge in their fields of public opinion, industry, finance -blanched as Jackson inexorably linked men like Journalist Streicher ("the venomous vulgarian") to Banker Schacht ("facade of starched respectability"); Diplomat von Ribbentrop ("salesman of deception") to Youth Leader von Schirach ("poisoner of a generation"); Diplomat von Papen ("pious agent of an infidel regime") to Slave Labor Boss Sauckel ("the cruelest slave driver since the Pharaohs...
...Alias Schacht. To the man of the field and to the great mass of city workers, Peron was both a smiling politico ready to backslap even convicts in the federal pen, and a gaucho St. George battling a reactionary dragon. Peron's "battle of the 60 days" had already frozen or reduced prices of four chief food staples: bread, sunflower-seed oil, sugar, spaghetti. Few realized, or perhaps cared, that the gaucho who looked like St. George was really more of a Hjalmar Schacht. In good Nazi tradition, the export market was subsidizing the domestic. Examples: the Argentine Government...