MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: ...and it is here said that you asked Von Papen to give the place to him and...
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: ...and do you contend—and I want you to say anything you want to about this—do you contend that that was not aiding Hitler to the Chancellorship?
SCHACHT: I do not know whether it was aiding Hitler. In the course of my examination here, I have been asked whether I had exerted any influence in connection with Hitler’s election or his nomination for the Chancellorship in January 1933. I have given the names of Hindenburg, Meissner, and so forth, that is to say, Hindenburg’s circle. Since the beginning of November 1932, Papen was no longer Chancellor and thus he had no influence upon these matters at all. I did not talk to Papen at all during those weeks. On the contrary, after the elections of 1932, I said that it was inevitable that a man who had obtained so many votes in the Reichstag must take over the political lead.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now let me get you correctly. When you saw Hitler was going to win you joined him?
SCHACHT: No.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, I’ll just make it clear what you do mean. You did not assist him until he had already accumulated more votes than any other Party in the Reichstag?
SCHACHT: I did not join Hitler when I saw that he would win, but when I had discovered that he had won.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Oh, well, I’ll accept the amendment.
You have referred to your letter to Hitler on the 29th of August 1932...