“Answer: ‘Right.’ ”
Is that true?
SCHACHT: That was my answer.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: The following questions were then asked:
“I understand that basically what was built up in Germany in the way of an armament industry, a domestic economy that was sound, and a Wehrmacht, the efforts that you put in from 1934 to the spring of 1938, when mefo financing stopped, were responsible in large part for the success of the whole program.
“Answer: ‘I don’t know whether they were responsible for it, but I helped a great deal to achieve that.’ ”
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And you were asked as follows, on the 17th of October 1945:
“In other words, in effect you are not taking the position that you are not largely responsible for the rearming of the German Army?
“Answer: ‘Oh no, I never did that.’