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Schacht's Attempted Defection from Hitler'S Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Harold James
Affiliation:
Princeton University

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2 The most recent and reliable account is Turner, H. A., German big business and the rise of Hitler (New York, 1985), pp. 144–5Google Scholar.

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4 N.A., Washington D.C. State Department papers. M679/3 23 Sept. 1945 De Witt C. Poole interrogation of Schacht at Oberursel.

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11 Ibid. 165/254–5.

12 Foreign relations of the United States 1939, 1, 521, 5 Nov. 1939, Chargé in Germany to secretary of state.

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