MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Didn’t you say on interrogation that it was from 1933 to 1942?
SCHACHT: No, that is an error. From 1937, after I had received the swastika. Evidently that is a misunderstanding. After I had received it I said to myself, “It would be fitting—give the people a thousand marks a year, and have done with it.”
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: For upwards of ten years, not quite ten years, you accepted and held office of one kind or another under this regime, did you not?
SCHACHT: From 17 March 1933 to 21 January 1943.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And as I understand you, that during this time, at least a part of the time, Hitler deceived you, and all the time you deceived Hitler.
SCHACHT: No, oh no.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I have misunderstood you?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well now...
SCHACHT: I believe that in the first years, at least, I did not deceive Hitler.