Word: schacht
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...penitence, some 2,000 young Germans made an elevenmile pilgrimage to the onetime concentration camp at Dachau, where Munich's Bishop Johannes Neuhaeusler, a former inmate, dedicated a chapel to Christ's agony (a jarring note was the appearance of Hitler's financial wizard, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, who did a brief spell in Dachau himself...
...world's capitals, there were few who had much to say in those days about free enterprise. It was an idea that the Germans themselves had spurned from the moment Bismarck seized on the 19th century Economist Friedrich List's protectionist ideas to the hour that Hjalmar Schacht's totalitarian Autarkic collapsed with Hitler. U.S. experts laughed after listening to Erhard's spouting, or felt sorry for the pathetic figure so obviously lost amid the realities around...
...first member of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet to visit Britain since Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941, pink-cheeked Financial Wizard Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 78, now a rapidly rising Düsseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany...
...There was the smirk of Hjalmar Schacht, in his neat office in Düsseldorf, insinuating politely: "Perhaps now you realize that it is not so easy for a people to get rid of demagogues just by wishing them to go away...
...Hitler's most agile hatchetmen, former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, who had whiled away many postwar years in Madrid as the constant companion of Use Luettge, decided to go respectable. Strapping, scar-faced Otto took Use, a niece of former Nazi Finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht, to a sleepy Castilian village and married her in a civil ceremony. Madrid's sizable German colony cheered, but good, churchgoing Madrilenos prepared to ignore the newlyweds...