MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: What was your trade route? You were thinking only of air developments?
SCHACHT: No, no. I thought of ships also.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Yes. And Germany was not then a naval power?
SCHACHT: I believe we had a merchant marine which was quite considerable.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Did your colonial plan involve rearmament by way of making Germany a naval power to protect the trade routes to the colonies that you were proposing?
SCHACHT: Not in the least.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Then your plan was to leave the trade route unprotected?
SCHACHT: Oh, no. I believed that international law would be sufficient protection.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, that is what you disagreed with Hitler about.
SCHACHT: We never spoke about that.