SCHACHT: Well, that I must naturally leave up to the donor.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And although it was taken at the point of a gun, you still would accept the gift?
SCHACHT: No, it was not taken “at the point of a gun.”
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Well, we will pass on to your speech. Did you say also:
“Instead of a weak and vacillating government a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. That is the great miracle which has happened in Germany and which has had its effect in all fields of life and not last in that of economy and finance. There is no German financial miracle. There is only the miracle of the reawakening of German national consciousness and German discipline, and we owe this miracle to our Führer, Adolf Hitler.” (Document EC-611)
Did you say that?
SCHACHT: Certainly. That was what I was so greatly astonished at.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: As Minister without Portfolio, what did your Ministry consist of?
SCHACHT: Nothing.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: What employees did you have?