He frequently clashed with the Nazi hierarchy- and with Hitler himself - over anti-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 assassinate Hiller. Hitler had imprisoned him in Dachau afterward, he was one of only three defendants at the Nuremberg trials to be acquittedĪrrogant, witty, caustic, and urbane, Schacht disdained economists and mathe mattcians his true strengths lay in public relations, |ournalism, and psychology As one of the dominant financial figures in the world, he understood that the German mark had no intrinsic worth its value was what he could make the public-and the worldbelieve it to be While he had financed the Nazis, he held most of them in contempt and protected a number of Jewish financiers. Later, under the Nazis, he built the economic and financial juggernaut that underwrote Hitler's military machine. Schacht gained worldwide fame as Germany's commissioner 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 Treaty. Now, in the first-ever fullscale biography to appear in English, historian John Weitz brings this brilliant Nazi-era financier to life Born to an impoverished family of the German upper middle class. HJALMAR HORACE GREELEY SCHACHT was a genius-but like his name, eccentric and highly enigmatic.
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