Gee Mr. Schacht ... I hope we're good for it. (nervous laughter)

… if you are new to the type of inquiry fostered by Giza …

… see Schacht’s 1) Confessions of “The Old Wizard”: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht and 2) The Magic of Money, and also 3) Antony C. Sutton’s Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler.

It appears Schact did very well after the war - from Wiki (for what it is worth) – In 1950, Juan Yarur Lolas the Bethlehem-born founder of the Banco de Crédito e Inversiones and president of the Arab colony in Santiago, Chile, tried to hire Schacht as a “financial adviser” in conjunction with the German-Chilean community. However, the plan fell through when it became news. He served as a hired consultant for Aristotle Onassis, a Greek businessman, during the 1950s. He also advised the Indonesian government in 1951 following the invitation of economic minister Sumitro Djojohadikusumo.

In 1953, Schacht started a bank, Deutsche Außenhandelsbank Schacht & Co., which he led until 1963. He also gave advice on economics and finance to heads of state of developing countries, in particular the Non-Aligned countries; however, some of his suggestions were opposed, one of which was in the Philippines by the former Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas head Miguel Cuaderno, who firmly rebuffed Schacht, stating that his monetary schemes were hardly appropriate for an economy needing capital investment in basic industry and infrastructure. (End of passage from Wiki)

Schacht was, if nothing else, a very interesting man.

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