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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Apr 02 @ 12:00UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
WERNER VON BLOMBERG: (1878 - 1946) Minister of Defense and Supreme Commander of the German Armies early in Hitler's regime, dismisssed by Hitler following his marriage to an alleged prostitute. Important A.D.S. signed at top and again at conclusion, 5pp. 4to., [Nuremburg], Aug. 21, 1945 in which Blomberg defends himself and fellow Nuremburg defendant, Reichsbank President and Minister of Economics HJALMAR SCHACHT against some of the charges lodged against them. Von Blomberg writes in German, in pencil, in small part: "...The rearmament which was carried out after the year 1933 was not decided in a single day, but was the result of many deliberations. If was definite that an army for the management of a defensive war should be assembled. The preparations to this end required a considerable amount of time for the assembling of the troops, as well as for the preparation of the weapons productionsindustry...the size of the miltary was set at twelve army corps and thirty-six divisions; and it was determined that they shouldm be maintained from that point on. The question of money...was of a critical nature. The financing was administered by the President of the Reich's bank, Schacht......the Reich's war ministry drew up its annual requirements of monetary resources and gave them to Swchacht...a compromise was reached between the military needs and the willingness of Schacht to meet these needs. We soldiers had the impression that on the one hand Schacht made the effort to meet our requirements, but at the same time tried to restrict the costs to an appropriate degree...a limitation on the needs of the populace first arose in [1938]...A war economy was underway...The armament which had been conducted in a financially restrictive manner could not have been carried out without the financial expertise of Schacht. On the other hand, he acted as a modifying force to the far flung demands of the soldiers...Schacht, as the finance man, made payments only to the extent that he considered necessary to meet the Reich's financial needs..." Much more. At Nuremberg, Schacht was basically charged with diverting funds and nearly bankrupting Germany to fund Hitler's rearmament. Perhaps as a result of von Blomberg's statement here to his captors, Schacht was acquitted of all charges. Very good. $800-1,200
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