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Hitler's Banker: Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht

by John Weitz

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HITLER'S BANKER is a full-scale biography of Hjalmar Schacht, one of history's premier financial wizards. Chief Architect of the Nazi economy, Schacht's rampant inflation financed the creation of the most powerful war machine in Europe out of the rubble of a devastated Weimar Republic. Weitz chronicles Schacht's early life and his meteoric success in the international banking world, deftly juxtaposing the twentieth-century history of Germany itself. HITLER'S BANKER is the riveting life story of a man imprisoned by Hitler because of his anti-Nazi sentiments and charged as a war criminal by the Allies. Exonerated of all charges at Nuremberg, Schacht lived to become a successful author and economic adviser to foreign nations, and a wealthy private banker.… (more)
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Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht fu - come il suo nome - una persona enigmatica, eccentrica e assolutamente unica. Discendente da una famiglia della buona borghesia tedesca, con una carriera fulminante Schacht divenne giovanissimo uno dei massimi finanzieri europei; già negli Anni Venti come presidente della Reichsbank riuscì a frenare la galoppante inflazione della Repubblica di Weimar e a liberare la Germania dalle riparazioni di guerra imposte dal Trattato di Versailles. Pochi anni più tardi, quando Hitler prese il potere, Schacht riuscì abilmente a riciclarsi e per dieci anni fu la mente economica e finanziaria che permise al Fuhrer di costruire la sua micidiale macchina da guerra. Imprigionato a Dachau durante la guerra, riuscì a riguadagnarsi i favori della gerarchia nazista, uscì vivo dal lager, sopravvisse al crollo del nazismo e al processo di Norimberga fu uno dei soli tre imputati prosciolti da ogni accusa. Arrogante, caustico, abilissimo negoziatore, brillante conversatore, Schacht fu uno straordinario doppiogiochista: da un lato finanziava gli sfarzi del Terzo Reich mentre dall'altro proteggeva e aiutava i finanzieri ebrei perseguitati; straordinario manipolatore di denaro, uomini e governi, agì nell'ombra ed esercitò un immenso potere occulto. Esplorare la sua vita significa scoprire che il vero potere tende a rendersi invisibile! ( )
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HITLER'S BANKER is a full-scale biography of Hjalmar Schacht, one of history's premier financial wizards. Chief Architect of the Nazi economy, Schacht's rampant inflation financed the creation of the most powerful war machine in Europe out of the rubble of a devastated Weimar Republic. Weitz chronicles Schacht's early life and his meteoric success in the international banking world, deftly juxtaposing the twentieth-century history of Germany itself. HITLER'S BANKER is the riveting life story of a man imprisoned by Hitler because of his anti-Nazi sentiments and charged as a war criminal by the Allies. Exonerated of all charges at Nuremberg, Schacht lived to become a successful author and economic adviser to foreign nations, and a wealthy private banker.

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