Question: “Did Schacht retain any governmental position after his dismissal as President of the Reichsbank?” Then Göring put in an answer: “Reich Minister.” Then another question: “Did he have any functions?” Göring again answered: “He remained Minister without Portfolio.” Then another question: “Were there any Cabinet meetings he attended?” Göring answered again: “There were no Cabinet meetings at that time.” Question: “Then it was purely honorary?” Göring said: “Practically.”
Then you interposed with this statement (Funk is speaking): “Schacht, after his dismissal, kept an office in the Reichsbank, where he worked on statistical data of the Reichsbank and where he still kept in touch with me every now and then.” Question: “How long did this last?” Answer: “This lasted until Schacht’s dismissal as Minister, probably in 1943.”
You made those answers, that answer, did you not?
FUNK: That is not correct. I did not express myself that way. I said only that I had been informed that he came to the Reichsbank frequently, that there was a room reserved for him and that he very seldom spoke to me. He seldom called on me. That was not translated correctly.
MR. DODD: You know what I am reading from, do you not? You know this Document, Number 2828-PS?
FUNK: No.
MR. DODD: Parts of this are already in evidence as Exhibit USA-654. And later, in another form, I shall submit this part which I have just read.
Counsel Sauter, for you, this morning referred to a letter which you had written to Hitler, I believe it was in 1939, a very fulsome letter which you said was somewhat due to the general feeling at the time and also to the fact that it was about your 50th birthday. Is that so? There was another reason for your writing that letter in connection with your birthday, wasn’t there? Do you know to what I refer?
FUNK: Yes.
MR. DODD: You received 520,000 Reichsmark from Hitler as a birthday present?