SCHACHT: Please ask Herr Göring that.
GEN. ALEXANDROV: Did you not ask him yourself?
SCHACHT: Herr Göring wished me to meet Hitler, or Hitler to meet me.
GEN. ALEXANDROV: What for? With what aim in mind?
SCHACHT: That you must ask Herr Göring.
GEN, ALEXANDROV: Do you not think that Hitler and Göring intended—and not unsuccessfully at that—to inveigle you into participating in the fascist movement, knowing that in Germany you were an economist and financier of repute who shared their views?
SCHACHT: I was uninformed about the intentions of these two gentlemen at that time. However, I can imagine that it was just as much a matter of interest for these gentlemen to meet Herr Schacht as it was for me to meet Herr Hitler and Herr Göring.
GEN. ALEXANDROV: Then it was a matter of purely personal interest; or were other considerations involved, of a political nature? You yourself understood that your participation in the fascist movement would be of advantage to Hitler, inasmuch as you were a well-known man in your own country?
SCHACHT: As far as I was concerned, I was only interested in seeing what kind of people they were. What motives these two gentlemen had are unknown to me, as I have already stated. My collaboration in the fascist movement was entirely out of the question, and it was not given...
GEN. ALEXANDROV: Tell me, please...