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Wherever he went, the reputation of "wizard" preceded Schacht. He had saved the Weimar Republic from the disastrous consequences of inflation, had helped Hitler build a superb war plant in debt-ridden Nazi Germany (he was acquitted of war crimes charges at Nürnberg). For his new patients, Dr. Schacht prescribed no miracle drugs, but time-tested, standard remedies. He warned Indonesia last year to work hard and attract foreign investors. He bluntly told the Iranians last month that they were "lazy," and repeated his injunction to work hard. Sometimes his pronouncements seemed a little hasty. ("I reached Teheran...
...equipment, and the work begun by bombers was carried on by the victorious governments. Russia grabbed more than 130,000 tons of valuable Krupp machinery. Britain carted away 150,000 tons of valuable scrap, systematically dismantled half of the remaining Krupp buildings. Krupp himself was tried at NÜrnberg, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. (Six years later, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy commuted the sentence to the time already served...
...statutes which ruled out of the banking profession anyone whose financial expertness or solvency was questionable, or who had "insufficient honor." The law helped the Nazis take over Germany's banking system. A month ago, Schacht, now a persimmon-faced 75, survivor of the Nürnberg war criminal trials and of denazification courts, asked the Hamburg Central State Bank for a license to establish an import-export bank under the name Hjalmar Schacht & Co. (capital: 1,000,000 Deutsche marks). Last week the decision was in. The Hamburg senate had refused Schacht his license, under...
...Germans demand the right to grant amnesty to war criminals; the allies fear that the Germans might renounce the principles established in the Nürnberg trials. Compromise: an allied-German board will review applications of war criminals and grant clemency in some cases without renouncing the validity of their trials or sentences...
...Schreiber was doing to advance Global Preventive Medicine, the Air Force stammered out some seemingly contradictory statements: 1) he was working merely on unclassified matters, 2) the project was classified confidential and could not be discussed. The Air Force said it knew nothing of these echoes of Nürnberg when it engaged Schreiber, and had no good way of sifting them...