Hjalmar Schacht
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Hjalmar Schacht:
First President of the Reichsbank during the rearmament of Germany, resigning in 1930, then accepting that post and the Ministry of the Economy in 1934, resigning all substantive posts by 1939 and being an opponent of Hermann Goering's economic policies. Imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp on suspicion in the 20th of July plot against Adolf Hitler, he was still tried by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg), acquitted, tried by German courts, and eventually winning an appeal in 1948
