Hjalmar Schacht quotes
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“Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.”
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“And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger than the number of producers, a fact which exercises a not inconsiderable social and political pressure.”
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“But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 754), 1946.
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“The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!”
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“The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.”
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“The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.”
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“Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.”
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“But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long.”
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“Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" by the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 5, (p. 134), 1947.
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“Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited”
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“It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 746), 1946.
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“The economy is a very sensitive organism.”
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“I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : Speech in Leipzig, March 4, 1935.
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“It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.”
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“Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 754), 1946.
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“Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad”
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“Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front”
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“The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : "The Trial of the Germans : An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 235), 1997.
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“Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany”
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“One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!”
-- Hjalmar SchachtSource : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
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