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Sep 21, 2016 · Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank. “I have full confidence in the judges, and I am not afraid of the outcome. A few of the defendants are not guilty; most of them are sheer criminals.” (10/23/45)…”All I wanted was to build up Germany industrially….The only thing they can accuse me of is breaking the Versailles Treaty ...
Who was brought to trial after the Holocaust? What pressures and motivations may have affected Schacht's choices before and during the war? Brief overview of the charges against Hjalmar Schacht during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, and denazification court proceedings.
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To be a crime against peace under Article 6 of the Charter it must be shown that Schacht carried out this rearmament as part of the Nazi plans to wage aggressive wars.
In 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) acquitted him in the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals, but a Stuttgart denazification court [ Spruchkammer ] judged him as a “major offender” [ Hauptschuldiger] the following year and sentenced him to eight years of hard labor. Schacht filed a successful appeal and was released in 1948.
Three of the defendants were acquitted: Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche. Four were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years: Karl Dönitz , Baldur von Schirach , Albert Speer , and Konstantin von Neurath .
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The IMT's single case indicted 24 defendants, all charged with being “leaders, organizers [and] instigators [of] and accomplices” in the crimes defined in the Charter. They were chosen to represent a cross-section of Nazi diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels could not ...
Joseph Maier describes Hjalmar Schacht at the Nuremberg trial. Joseph immigrated to the United States in 1933 after finishing university in Leipzig. His parents and brother had left Germany earlier for the United States. Joseph attended Columbia University. From 1940 to 1943 he was assistant editor for a New York German-Jewish newspaper.
