SCHACHT: Yes; but he misunderstood my attitude.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, when you went and asked first the Foreign Minister and then Hitler to go to the United States, or have some one go to the United States, you testified, on Page 8708 of the record (Volume XII, Page 467) that you told Hitler this:
“It seems vital to me that there should be someone constantly in America who could clarify German interests publicly, in the press, et cetera.”
Did you say that?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, is that what you actually said to Hitler?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, I call your attention to your own letter, Document Number 3700-PS to the Reich Marshal.
“In the beginning of 1940 I proposed to the Führer that I should go to the United States in order to attempt to slow down America’s assistance to England in the matter of armaments and, if possible, to prevent America becoming involved more deeply in the war.”
I ask you, which of those is true?