The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-03
Sehaeht Soys HeLed Plot
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N1eEnbeEE, May 9-(uP)-Hial- mar Gchaeht described himself to the War Grimes Court yesterday as the wartime leader of an anti-lgazi group which plotted to overthrow Adolf Hitler but never got going because we waited on the outcome of negotiations abroad"
 Gchacht, testifying for the third day in his own defense, said he was continually in touch with friends abroad-Americans, British, French and neutrals" who were aware of his plans and scheming against Hitler.
 He said he began in 1887 trying to line up dependable opposition groups fh Germany.
 Deserted By Friends
 sAll the circles in which l had hopes were failures, scientists and economists educated in Germany" !" Schacht testified. '"The leading eco nomists crowded Hermann Goering's anteroom after he took power, and summed mine."
 He said he got in touch with one General Lindemann in 1043 and carried on negotiations to over- throw Hitler. He said he told Linde- mann, who was executed after the 1914 bomb atempt on Hitler,s life:
 'The generals are delaying too long. Hitler ought to be assassinat- ed before the invasion by the Allies" /"
 Schacht said he protested against the Nazi concentration camps in their earlier days, and never heard of the mass murders at them until after Germany collapsed. He ob- served ruefully that he did have an opportunity to visit several camps after he was seized by the Nazis following he bomb plot against Hitler.
 Denies Increase in Richness
 He denied he became rich during the Na1 era claiming the value of his property fluctuated little in the last 20 years.
 He got only one gift from Hitler, he said-and that was a forgery.
 "On my 5Oth birthday" Schacht testified, ''he gave me a German oil painting which had value of 10000 markS-n it had been genu- inc. As soon as it was brought into my room, recognized it was a for gery. I started court proceedings and was upheld by the court. I re-, turned the forgery to Hitler" ', Hjalmar Schacht told the tribunal . that the most Hitler even hoped to win at Munich was autonomy for the Germans in Czechoslovakia.
 He was more surprised than any one else, Schacht said, when the Allies gave him the Sudetenland.
 SchOcked at HiO CTS Plans
 :" was surprised and shocked g. few days after Munich" Schacht testified, when I saw Hitler and overheard him tell SS friends, sthat fellow British Prime Minis ter Neville Chamberlain has spoil d my march into Prague"
 x "EIitler apparently was not sa- fisfied with the great sussess he had achieved politically"
 ,ASchacnt said the outcome of the Munich conference scuttled plans Of anti-Nazi clements in Germany to remove Hitler and Schacht.
 Schacht said that even when a general told him of Hitler's plan to invade Belgium and Holland, T was shocked and replied If you want to commit that insane action, no one can help you any more.
 Testimony Fluctuases
 :. He said he took no part in plan ming the attack on Russia, and re- fused . request by Propaganda Mn ister Paul Joseph Goebbels to write articles playing down the economic results of the united States into the war. that he put up 100000 Reichmarks of his own funds for Nazi propa- ganda.
 . Schacht said after he resigned as Reichbank president, he remaineo as minister without portfolio at Hitler's insistence, but received no nay and had no duties.
 Under cross examination Schacht admitted that in 19S2 he signed tetition with other leading lnous- trialists and fnanciers asking preSi- dent Paul von Hindenburg to make Ixitler Chancellor. He had denied vesterday that he had anything to do with Eitler's rise to power.
 schacht also admitted that he said in a statement made in prls- dSn cell last fall that "Hitler asked me t0 procure money for the cleo hon and I did it." Yesterday he aid he never took part in financing taae NaM party.