SCHACHT: Yes, they all agreed, surprisingly.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, had the Reichsbank before 1933 and 1934 been a political institution?
SCHACHT: No.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Had politics been in the Reichsbank?
SCHACHT: Never.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, on this day, speaking to its employees, you said this, did you not?
“The Reichsbank will always be nothing but National Socialist, or I shall cease to be its manager. (Heavy, protracted applause).”
Did that happen?
SCHACHT: Yes.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, Sir, you have said that you never took the oath to Hitler.