Extract from an article, on Schacht's contribution to the Nazi movement, including the period before he became a formal party member

. FRANZ REUTER, "SCHACHT",
German Publishing Establishment [Deutsche Verlagsanstalt] 1937, Pages 113-114.
A strong personality, inspired with national German passion which indeed has to merge with the great movement, whose extraordinary abilities and experiences in turn mean a strengthening for others, he joins the national movement. By word and deed and through the effect of his personality on the inner circles and the people whom he is able to influence—and among them are the best of the nation—Schacht from now on becomes a conscious helper of the National Socialist movement and one of those, who take valuable part in its final victory. For him, who, by his struggle as the president of the Reichsbank, already belonged to the movement for a long time and who sacrificed for it his office by maintaining his principles, corresponding to those of the movement, his becoming a regular member certainly is only a question of secondary importance. By not doing so—at least, until the final assertion and victory of the party—he was able to assist it (the party) much better than he would have been able to do had he become an official party member.