SCHACHT: I have testified here that I knew about the Gestapo camps which Göring had set up and said that I was opposed to them. I do not at all deny that.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: But your friendship continued despite that knowledge.
SCHACHT: I have never had a friendship with Göring.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well...
SCHACHT: I surely cannot refuse to work with him, especially as long as I do not know what kind of a man he is.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: All right. Let us take up foreign relations, about which you have made a good deal of complaint here. I think you have testified that in 1937 when you were doing all this rearming, you did not envisage any kind of a war, is that right?
SCHACHT: No, what you are saying, Mr. Justice, is not correct. In 1937 I did not do everything to rearm; but from 1935, from the fall of 1935 on, I tried everything possible to slow down the rearming.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: All right. I refer you to your interrogation of 16 October 1945, and ask whether you gave these answers to these questions:
“Question: ‘Let me ask you then, in 1937 what kind of war did you envisage?’
“Answer: ‘I never envisaged a war. We might have been attacked, invaded by somebody; but even that I never expected.’