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Weitz, John. HITLER'S BANKER: HJALMAR HORACE GREELEY SCHACHT.
Little, Brown, Boston, 1997.
361 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0316929166 B&w illustrations. "(B)rings this brilliant Nazi-era financier to life. Born to an impoverished family of the German upper middle class, Schacht gained worldwide fame as G ermany's commissi oner of currency and president of the Reichsbank in the 1920s. Single-handedly, he halted Germany's runaway inflation and, as a tough negotiator, freed Germany from the crippling reparation debts imposed by the Versailles Treat y . Later, under the Nazis, he built the economic and financial juggernaut that underwrote Hitler's military machine. Yet before the war was over, Hitler had imprisoned him in Dachau; afterward, he was one of only three defendants at the Nurember g tr i als to be acquitte d. Arrogant, witty, caustic, and urbane, Schacht disdained economists and mathematicians; his true strengths lay in public relations, journalism, and psychology. As one of the dominant financial figures in the world, he u nd ers to od that the German mark had no intrinsic worth; its value was what he could make the public - and the world - believe it to be. While he had financed the Nazis, he held most of them in contempt and protected a number of Jewish financiers. H e fr equ ently clashed with the Nazi hierarchy - and with Hitler himself - over anit-Jewish laws and war spending. In addition, he remained in close touch with, and was probably involved with, the high-ranking conspirators who attempted to assa ssin ate H itle r. Athough all the officers in the plot were executed, Schacht was only imprisoned, and lived to the age of ninety-three." Minor wrinkling at top of spine. Dust jacket has minor crease at top of rear flap. Near Fine/Near Fine
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