Author: SCHACHT, HJALMAR HORACE GREELEY; PYKE, DIANA (TRANSLATOR)
Title: My First Seventy-Six Years: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht
Description: London: Allan Wingate, 1955. First Engish Edition. Hardcover. vi, [2], 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period, for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years... His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921... As the Nazi avalanche swelled, Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank... but (Schacht) soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government, remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - dust jacket. Schact was later aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Average wear to unmarked book. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. KEHR & LANGMAID 1217, ALDCROFT & RODGER p.83.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; My First Seventy-six Years: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht Biography Nazi Germany Nuremberg Trials Reichsbank Central Banker German Democratic Party Weimer Republic Hyperinflation Bankers Montagu Norman Mark Inflation. Good in Fair dust jacket .

Keywords: Seventy Six : History Economics