SCHACHT: Yes. I would like to say in this connection, if it is permitted, that to my knowledge this letter has already been read here by the American Chief Prosecutor, that is...
DR. DIX: Read?
SCHACHT: Or mentioned, or at least the most important points were read. I believe it is sufficient if you submit the letter to the Court in evidence.
DR. DIX: Yes, that has been done.
Now, that constituted your entire activity as Reich Minister without Portfolio?
SCHACHT: Yes, that was the end of it.
DR. DIX: Therefore if one wanted to define your position in one word, one would say, just a kind of retired major (Charaktermajor).
SCHACHT: I don’t know what a “Charaktermajor” is, at any rate, I was never a major, but I have always had character.
DR. DIX: But, Dr. Schacht, that is a historical remark about authority conferred by Kaiser Wilhelm, the First as German Emperor on Bismarck.
THE PRESIDENT: I think this is a convenient time to break off.