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...ring et al. were rooting for the prosecution. They smiled and nodded every time their accuser, Robert H. Jackson, scored a point. The wizard who produced this strange turnabout was Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...nimble-minded, solid citizen Schacht juggled accusations as though they were blocked marks. He could not deny that he had gambled on Hitler's success (once Schacht had said that with Hitler he was either "walking to a monument or a scaffold"). Now Schacht took the line that, as a good Christian and as a good businessman, he had always opposed war and wasteful cruelties. "Hitler deceived the world, Germany and me. . . . I would have killed Hitler personally if given the chance...
Jackson was deferentially polite to Schacht, whom he called "Doctor." Once, when Jackson listed the countries Hitler invaded, Schacht snapped impudently: "You are doing well, but you forget Nor-.way and Belgium...
...spectators heard little to remind them of Schacht's vast power as Reich Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank, or of the bloodless crimes involved in his financial manipulation to strengthen the Nazis. Said a U.S. staff member: "He's getting ready for his reception in America-probably brushing up his English." Said a 22-year-old U.S. court stenographer: "My, he's cute...
...this sounded as though only a Nazi could have prepared it-and apparently one had. He was natty 42-year-old Dr. Heinrich Dörge, reputedly the favorite disciple of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Schacht's right-hand man in running Germany's famed Industrial Credit Bank. Just after Pearl Harbor, Dörge had drifted to Argentina via the U.S. and Chile. He reportedly became Miranda's confidant and idea-man in his rise to power with...