SCHACHT, Hjalmar. Account Settled. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. [1949].
Original boards with dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. 327, portrait frontispiece; wrappers with marginal flaws to spine ends and corners, a little spotted and darkened alonng upper and lower margin of wrappers, internally very clean and fresh.
Scarce first edition in English. 'The only full-length statement published since the war by a major figure in Hitler's government. Provides the detailed story of prewar German economic policy in the words of the man primarily responsible for it' (front flap). Schacht had been an early Nazi party member and supporter of Hitler. From 1933 to 1939 he was president of the Reichsbank, and Minister of Economics (1934-1937). After Crystal Night he distanced himself from the Nazi regime, had contacts to the resistance group of the 20th of July and was subsequently incarcerated in concentration camps. At the Nuremberg triale he was accquitted and later played a major rolwe in international finance and banking.
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