Hitler's Banker - Hjalmar Horace Greely Schacht

Schacht was a genius, an eccentric and an enigma. Single-handedly halting Germany's runaway inflation and freeing her from the crippling reparation debts imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, he gained worldwide fame as the economic guru of Nazi Germany. Yet while he financed Hitler's military regime, he held most Nazis in contempt and frequently clashed with its hierarchy - and Hitler himself - over anti-Jewish laws and war spending... he was one of only three defendants to be acquitted at the Nuremberg trials...