MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: When did it cease to be necessary, Dr. Schacht?
SCHACHT: Cease?
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Yes; when did it cease to be necessary?
SCHACHT: I think it more important to ask when it commenced; when it started.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well?
SCHACHT: During the first years I did not do it, of course, but later on I did to a considerable extent. I could say always; it never stopped.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Has it stopped now?
SCHACHT: I have no more colleagues, and here before this Tribunal I have nothing to tell but the truth.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, on the 24th of September, 1935—December—you wrote EC-293, which is Exhibit Number USA-834, and used this language, did you not:
“If there is now a demand for greater armament, it is, of course, not my intention to deny or change my attitude, which is in favor of the greatest possible armament and which I have expressed for years both before and since the seizure of power; but it is my duty to point out the economic limitations of this policy.”