This is a photograph taken when the foundation of the new Reichsbank building was laid in 1934. Directly behind me, on the right, is Blomberg.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And Number 6?
SCHACHT: One moment. That is the picture where I am walking alongside Hitler, is that right? That is Hitler’s entrance in my company, on the occasion when the foundation of the new Reichsbank building was laid. Behind me, or rather behind Hitler, you can see Geheimrat Vocke, who is to appear as a witness here tomorrow, and several other gentlemen from the directorate of the Reichsbank.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I offer the remaining photographs, 1, 6, and 7 in evidence under the same number.
So that it would appear, Dr. Schacht, that a good deal of your present company was the company that started off with you in 1933 and 1934?
SCHACHT: Is that a question?
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, is that not true?
SCHACHT: No. If you had photographed me with my other acquaintances just as often, the number would be 10 times as great.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You testified—and I refer to Page 8650 of the record (Volume XII, Page 424)—that there were reasons of principle why you did not become a Party member and that Party membership would not be compatible with your principles?
SCHACHT: That is right.