throughout the Nazi period. Born to a German father who worked at the Berlin office of the Equitable Trust Company of New York (Morgan- controlled); brother William Schacht was American-born; Hjalmar named "Horace Greeley" to record the family's American origins; spoke fluent English (the Project Dustbin post-war interrogation was conducted in both German and English). Per Sutton WSRH Ch 2: "Schacht was a member of the international financial elite that wields its power behind the scenes through the political apparatus of a nation. He is a key link between the Wall Street elite and Hitler's inner circle."Bank for International SettlementsReichsbank president 1923-30 + 1933-39; Hitler's "financial genius"; Germany's representative at the
(GE), W.S. Farish (Standard Oil of NJ chairman), and their banking counterparts. Conceived the institutional form of the Bank for International Settlements (1930); gave Owen Young the concept that became the post-WWII IBRD/World Bank. Administered the "Nationale Treuhand" account at Delbruck, Schickler & Co. that received industrial-financial contributions to NSDAP from the February 20, 1933 Goering's house meeting (Schacht's 1947 Nuremberg affidavit, Prosecution Exhibit 55, Trials of War Criminals Vol VII). Acquitted at Nuremberg 1946. Died June 3, 1970, age 93. (Claims SUT-WSRH-003, SUT-WSRH-004, SUT-WSRH-006.)Owen YoungDocumented repeated visits to