THE PRESIDENT: Put the microphone where the Defendant Schacht can speak from there and ask him the question.
[The microphone was placed before the defendant.]
DR. DIX: Dr. Schacht, you have witnessed the cross-examination. Would you like to tell the Tribunal what happened?
SCHACHT: When I spoke here I said that I had a long conversation on 2 January 1939 with Hitler at Berchtesgaden on the Obersalzberg, and that after that conversation, in which the suggestion was put to me to create an inflation, I considered that the time had come to take that step which the Reichsbank afterwards took, to dissociate itself from Hitler and his methods.
[The microphone was returned to the witness.]
THE PRESIDENT: There is one question I want to ask you, Witness. Did the Defendant Schacht ever tell you that he had been appointed Plenipotentiary General for War Economy?
VOCKE: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: When?
VOCKE: Well, I believe he was appointed to that office in 1935. I believe that is the date. I could not say for certain.
THE PRESIDENT: I did not ask you when he was appointed. I asked you when he told you.