MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: I am referring to the speech in which you said to us in interrogation that Göring had assembled industrialists and said a lot of foolish things about the economy which you had to refute.
SCHACHT: That was the meeting of 17 December 1936.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And then you wrote to Göring complaining about the mining measures?
SCHACHT: I assume that you mean the letter of 5 August?
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Right. That document is Document EC-497, Exhibit USA-775. And in that letter of August 1937 you said this, if I quote you correctly:
“Meanwhile I repeatedly stressed the need of increased exports and actively worked towards that end. The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies.”
Correct?
SCHACHT: I assume it is.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: And you also said this, I believe:
“I have held this view of the economic situation which I have explained above from the first moment of my collaboration.”