SCHACHT: I heard about that—one moment. I do not know exactly who was put into the concentration camps. I was informed about the confiscation of property because that was publicly announced; but, if I understand you correctly, I do not know what the meetings of industrialists had to do with it.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, you also knew very early about the persecution of the Jews, didn’t you?
SCHACHT: I explained yesterday exactly what I knew about the persecution of the Jews, how I acted in connection with the persecution of the Jews, and I state that as long as I was a minister I did everything to prevent these things.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I understood your generality, and I am trying to get at a little more detail about it, Dr. Schacht. Did you not testify as follows, on your interrogation on the 17th of October 1945:
“The National Socialists, as I understood from the program, intended to have a smaller percentage of Jews in the governmental and cultural positions of Germany, with which I agreed.”
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: “Question: ‘Well, now, you had read Mein Kampf, had you not?’
“Answer: ‘Yes.’
“Question: ‘And you knew the views of Hitler on the Jewish question. Did you not?’
“Answer: ‘Yes.’ ”