“Question: ‘And, obviously, it was a bill which was put in by your Ministry, was it not?’
“Answer: ‘Yes.’ ”
Is that correct?
SCHACHT: Yes, I assume so. You see, in these matters it was a question of degrees. I have just explained the principles of my policy. The extent to which these individual laws went is a question of politics. Today, you can say what you like about it.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, you also favored the law, and signed the law, prohibiting all Jews from being admitted to examinations for public economic advisors, for co-operatives, for example.
SCHACHT: Yes, possibly. I do not remember but probably it is right.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And you also approved a law imposing the death penalty on German subjects who transferred German property abroad, or left German property abroad.
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And of course you knew that that affected, chiefly and most seriously, the Jews who were moving abroad.
SCHACHT: I hope that the Jews did not cheat any more than the Christians.