MILITARY WEEKLY GAZETTE
[ Militär-W ochenblatt ]
Founded 1816 Editorial Administration Berlin SW 68, Kochstrasse 68-71 Telephone: A 1 Jager 7591
[in pencil] I. Schacht Berlin, 16 January, 1937
Most esteemed Colonel:
In accordance with your wish, we are sending the article about
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Dr. Schacht back to you with our best thanks. It will appear on 22 January in "Militar-Wochenblatt" No. 28.
With German greetings,
Devotedly,
Tillmanns -Major Gen., ret.
Enclosure:
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht '
On 22 January, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the President of the German Reichsbank, entrusted by the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor with the direction of the Reich Economics Ministry, will celebrate his 60th birthday.
When the history of our age comes to be written, his person will play a special role in it. President of the Reichsbank at a time when the German currency, which had collapsed in the inflation, had to be built up again, guardian of this currency in the system period as long as he was able in any manner to reconcile it with his conscience, adviser to the Fuehrer in the period of struggle, again Reichsbank president and director of German economic policy and, as such, finally, the man who made the reconstruction of the Wehrmacht economically possible—truly a career that, running through all depths and heights, elevates this man to one of the most significant phenomena of our day.
The German Defense Force commemorates Dr. Schacht today as one of the men who have done imperishable things for it and its development in accordance with directions from the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. The Defense Force owes it to Schacht's skill and great ability that, in defiance of all currency difficulties, it, according to plan has been able to grow up to its present strength from an army of 100,000 men. Together with the proDefense Force Reich Finance Minister, President Schacht insures the provisioning of the Defense Force and is a helpful and energetic adviser to the leading military agencies in all defense industry questions. The will of the Fuehrer to bring the Defense Force up to ever greater strength is also a first commandment for Schacht; his economic policy is sound defense policy.
The Defense Force [Wehrmacht] wishes for this great political economist and warm friend of the Defense Force that many years of activity for the good of Fuehrer and people, Reich and Defense Force may still lie before him. He should know on this day that the Defense Force thinks of him with gratitude and cordiality.
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Cover letter and article, on Hjalmar Schacht's career and his contribution to "the reconstruction of the Wehrmacht"
Authors
Tillmanns (major gen., ret., Military Weekly Gazette (1937))
Tillmanns
- Additional details not yet available.
Date: 16 January 1937
Literal Title: Militar-Wochenblatt ("Military Weekly Gazette") . . . Dr. Hjalmar Schacht
Defendant: Hjalmar Schacht
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: EC-383
Citation: IMT (page 272)
HLSL Item No.: 450575
Notes:This document was presented as part of document book K; it was not cited on its own in the transcript. Another copy was entered as US exhibit 640 in the case against Schact.
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
EC-383: Article published in 'Militaer Wochenblatt' on Hjalmar Schacht's 60th birthday