Word: schacht
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...gestured and postured and smiled his dimpled smile. Others tried to ignore it-like Colonel General Alfred Jodl who, contrary to rules, hid his head at night under the blankets in his cell. Still others fought it alternately with cool logic and indignant tantrums-like Banker Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...
...documents were read slowly, so that the translators could keep pace. The accused dropped their initial air of boredom, strained to hear every word. As the relatively "innocent" and "detached" ones, such as Schacht, were drawn into the story, the defendants began to understand the scope of the case...
Then there was Banker Hjalmar Schacht who, so far, had been as stiff in court as his famous, forbidding four-inch collars. Always a solid citizen, a self-made man who had risen from a small clerkship to the presidency of the Reichsbank, a clubman of quiet but expensive style, he held aloof from riffraff like Göring-whom, he said, he would now gladly kill with his own hands. The record read: Schacht was host at a special meeting of German industrialists called to raise money for the Nazi Party before the March 1933 elections. If Hitler...
Only one of the defendants refused to look at the massive show of death: Solid Citizen Schacht sat with his back turned to the screen from beginning...
...Trust got Sweden to surrender $21,000,000 of $50,000,000 in German bonds which Kreuger had stolen from International Match to use as collateral against his own indebtedness. Then, with the help of the U.S. Government, it forced Nazi President of the Reichsbank Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht to pay $2,000,000 on their interest...