SCHACHT: Not the laws which were passed later. I always urged Hitler to give legal protection to the Jews. I wanted to see this law enacted, and I assumed that it would be done; but instead the Racial Laws of September or November, yes, November, 1935, were passed.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I have quoted from Exhibit Number USA-832, which is Document EC-433, and you say the laws you were forecasting and promising were laws for the protection of the Jews?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: We will get to that later.
You gave your reasons, which you said were reasons of principle, to the Tribunal for not becoming a Party member?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR: JUSTICE JACKSON: Yesterday in Court, do you recall that?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now isn’t it a fact that you have told the United States Prosecution Staff that you asked Hitler whether to join the Party, and that to your great relief Hitler told you not to?
SCHACHT: Yes. Before I co-operated with him I wanted to find out whether he demanded that I should become a member of the Party. I was most relieved when he said I need not.