Author: SCHACHT, HJALMAR HORACE GREELEY; PYKE, DIANA (TRANSLATOR)
Title: Confessions of "the Old Wizard" - the Autobiography of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (Trade Division), 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, [2], 484 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "I was forty-six years old in 1923 when the Government offered me the post of Commissioner for National Currency, followed shortly by that of President of the Reichsbank, an appointment bestowed upon me by President Ebert. I accepted the appointment, and stabilized the mark." - from xi. William Shirer described Schacht as "The only brilliant and, next to Hitler, the most interesting Nazi." Schacht, sometimes referred to as 'Hitler's Banker', was acquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Moderate wear to orange cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. Professor's ink stamp inside front board. Considerable ink underlining and marginalia on pages 315-321. Bit of writing inside back board. Includes replica dust jacket. A sound copy. Laska 344, Madden p.609, Aldcroft & Rodger p.84.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Confessions of "The Old Wizard" - The Autobiography of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht Reichsbank Weimer Hyperinflation Nazi Germany Sterling Area Point 4 Program Conspiracy Hitler. Good .

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