Hjalmar Schacht Quotes

• I wouldn’t believe that Hitler was dead, even if he told me himself.

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• With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

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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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• 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.

  Hjalmar Schacht

• 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, through exporting.

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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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• The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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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.

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• Germany stays and falls with the success of the policy of Hitler.

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• Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

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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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• 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.

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Birth:	22nd January, 1877
Death:	3rd June, 1970
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Economist, Politician

About

Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was born in Tinglev, Denmark. He was a German economist, banker, liberal politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party in 1918. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. While he never joined the NSDAP, he became a supporter of Adolf Hitler. He served in Hitler's government as President of the Reichsbank from 1933–1939 and Minister of Economics from 1934–1937. He was dismissed as President of the Reichsbank in January 1939. In 1953, he founded a private banking house in Düsseldorf. He also advised developing countries on economic development. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Berlin in 1899. He wrote several books include: The End of Reparations,
Confessions of "the Old Wizard"(Autobiography), and The Stabilization of the Mark.

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