What was totally ludicrous and absurd was the fact that Schacht was charged with war crimes after WWII even though Schacht was an OPPONENT of Hitler and was sent to concentration camp.
Thankfully the IMT at Nuremberg acquitted him.
Schacht had a great quote. At one time, some large New York investment houses, impressed by Schacht’s ability to fund Germany’s economic revival (and rearmament) tried to lure him to work for them. Their bait was “Here in New York we are the world’s financial capital; we have plenty of money; that’s real banking.”
Schacht’s reply was something like “I’m working my economic plan in Germany with NO money! Now THAT’S real banking!”
Schacht scored the highest IQ among the Germans tried at Nuremberg. Goring also scored pretty high. Everyone thought Speer was a genius but his IQ was not that high; it was high enough to be considered bright, but he was not what you would put in the genius range.
No thanks to the head of the kangaroo court, 'Justice' Jackson.