SCHACHT: Yes, I had my doubts.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And after the Austrian Anschluss you knew that the Wehrmacht was an important factor in his Eastern policy?
SCHACHT: Well, you may express it that way. I do not know exactly what you mean by it.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, do not answer anything if you do not know what I mean, because we will make it clear as we go along. Except for the suggestion of colonies you proposed no other alternative to his plan of expansion to the East?
SCHACHT: No.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Never at any Cabinet meeting or elsewhere did you propose any other alternative?
SCHACHT: No.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, as to the move into Austria, I think you gave these answers:
“Question: ‘Actually Hitler did not use the precise method that you say you favored?’
“Answer: ‘Not at all.’