Reich Bank President (retired) Dr. Hjalmar Schacht
Berlin SW 111, 12 Nov. 1932.
Mr. Adolf Hitler,
Brown House, Brienner Strasse,
Munich.
Dear Mr. Hitler:
Permit me to congratulate you on the firm stand you took immediately after the election. I have no doubt that the present
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development of things can only lead to your becoming chancellor. It seems as if our attempt to collect a number of signatures from business circles for this purpose was not altogether in vain, although I believe that heavy industry will hardly participate, for it rightfully bears its name "heavy industry" on account of its indecisiveness.
I hope that in the next few days and weeks the slight difficulties which necessarily appear in the course of the propaganda campaign will not be so great as to provide the opponents with a reason for justified indignation. The stronger ÿour internal position is the more dignified can be your fight. The more the cause develops in your favor, the more you can renounce personal attacks.
I am quite confident that doomed to disintegration. With German Greetings,
the present system is certainly
Yours very truly, (signed) Hjalmar Schacht.
Letter to Hitler, congratulating him on his political position and predicting that he will become chancellor
Authors
Hjalmar Schacht (Dr., Reichsbank president, Minister of Economics, plenipotentiary for war economy)
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist
- Born: 1877-01-22 (Tinglev Municipality)
- Died: 1970-06-03 (Munich)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: banker; economist; politician
- Member of political party: German Democratic Party (period: 1918-01-01 through 1926-01-01); Nazi Party (period: 1934-01-01 through 1943-01-01; role: honorary member)
- Member of: German Archaeological Institute
- Participant in: Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933
- Educated at: Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums; Humboldt University of Berlin; Leipzig University; Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Date: 12 November 1932
Defendant: Hjalmar Schacht
Total Pages: 1
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-456
Citations: IMT (page 5126), IMT (page 8844)
HLSL Item No.: 452785
Trial Issues
Biographical and character evidence (all cases) Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4)
Document Summary
EC-456: Photostat of letter from Schacht to Hitler, congratulating him on the outcome of the 1932 elections and expressing the hope that H. will be Chancellor soon