Event
Meeting of 20 February 1933
Hitler and Göring met about two dozen industrialists in Berlin; afterwards Schacht asked them for an election fund of three million Reichsmarks.
- Dates
- 20 Feb 1933
- Place
- Berlin
Connections 9
involved
- Berlin held at the house of the President of the Reichstag Primary record 1
- Adolf Hitler spoke to the guests Primary record 23
- Hermann Göring host; told the guests the party needed money Primary record 14
- Hjalmar Schacht asked the guests for the fund Primary record 25
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach thanked Hitler for the guests Primary record 4
- Georg von Schnitzler attended for IG Farben Primary record 2
- I. G. Farben four members of its board were invited Primary record 2
- Reich Association of German Industry its chairman was among those invited Scholarship & press 3
caused
- Election fund of February 1933 Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- 20 Feb 1933 Meeting of 20 February 1933
Proof 5 sources
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Telegram D-201 and report D-203 (p. 557), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 20TH 6 O'CLOCK AFTERNOON, DURING WHICH THE REICH CHANCELLOR WILL EXPLAIN HIS POLICIES.
PRESIDENT OF THE REICHSTAG GOERING
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Affidavit of Georg von Schnitzler, 10 November 1945 (document EC-439), Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, 10 Nov 1945.
Primary record
While I had expected the appearance of Goering, Hitler entered the room, shook hands with everybody and took a seat at the top of the table.
After Hitler had left the room, Dr. Schacht proposed to the meeting the raising of an election fund of—as far as I remember—RM 3,000,000.
I went to the meeting which was attended by about 20 persons who I believe were mostly leading industrialists from the Ruhr.
4 members of the Vorstand of I.G. Farben including Dr. Bosch, the head of the Vorstand, and myself were asked by the office of the president of the Reichstag to attend a meeting in his house.
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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985.
Scholarship & press
he had spoken for roughly an hour and a half
its chairman, Krupp von Bohlen, and several dozen other prominent industrialists received telegrams
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Report D-203 and Krupp memorandum D-204 (p. 562), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
He then led over very cleverly to the necessity that other circles not taking part in this political battle should at least make the financial sacrifices so necessary at this time.
On the 20th of this month I expressed to Reich Chancellor Hitler the gratitude of approximately 25 industrialists present
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Interrogation of Hjalmar Schacht, 20 July 1945 (document NI-406, extract), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy), 20 Jul 1945.
Primary record
And the amount which I collected was 3 million marks.
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