Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schachtwas a German economist, banker, liberal politician, and co-founder in 1918 of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic. He was a fierce critic of his country's post-World War I reparation obligations...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth22 January 1877
CountryGermany
finance sensitive economy
The economy is a very sensitive organism.
ideas years four
The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!
broken resistance unfaithful
The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
government personality today
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
sympathy strong elude-us
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.
germany negotiation colony
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.
war use etc
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
taught economic economy
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
germany influence realizing
The Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time
counter-attack russia arms
Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front
loss people burning
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.
effort ministry statistics
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.
war mean rights
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!
criticisms neither nor pleasantly published rumours
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.