SCHACHT: Yes, I did so, shall we say, after 1936. But he noticed it. That was not a deception.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You take some part of the responsibility, I take it, for the loss of the war by Germany.
SCHACHT: That is a very strange question. Please, forgive me if I say that I assume no responsibility. Since I am not responsible for the fact that the war started I cannot assume any responsibility for the fact that it was lost. I did not want war.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And when did your doubts about Hitler as a man, his integrity, first arise?
SCHACHT: I have explained that in such detail during the examination that I do not think I need repeat it.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Did that occur—I’ll put it in the terms of your interrogation, since your interrogation is a little clearer.
“In 1934”—so your interrogation runs—“he killed many people without having any legal justification or had them killed; and a few days after, in the Reichstag, he said he was the highest judge in Germany. He was certainly not, and for the first time I was shaken by his conception. It seemed to me absolutely immoral and inhuman.”
Is that correct?
SCHACHT: I said that here yesterday or the day before; exactly the same thing.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, I want to fix these dates, Dr. Schacht. You see, your purpose in this trial and mine aren’t exactly the same.