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Deposition on Schacht's funding of rearmament through "mefo" bills during 1935-38
IMT
Authors
Emil Puhl (director & vice-president of the Reichsbank, Berlin)
Emil Puhl
German Nazi banker, VP Deutsche Bank,BIS, convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg (1889-1962)
- Born: 1889-08-28 (Berlin)
- Died: 1962-03-30 (Hamburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: banker; economist; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Pohl Trial (date: 1946-05-03; role: affiant)
- Employer: Bank for International Settlements; Deutsche Bank; Reichsbank (since: 1939-01-01)
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/30485602
Date: 02 November 1945
Literal Title: Deposition
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-436
Document Book No: Prosecution K
Citation: IMT (page 272)
HLSL Item No.: 450581
Notes:This document was presented as part of document book K; it was not identified separately in the transcript. Another copy was entered as US exhibit 620 in the case against Schacht.
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
Staff Evidence Analyses
EC-436: Sworn statement re financing of German rearmament. Signed Emil Puhl