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Hjalmar Schacht (Collaborator, Resister) Christina Rossomando Period 3 social studies Hjalmar was born in Tinglev, Germany on January 22nd 1877. For his whole life he studied the German religion and believed in Adolf Hitler. In 1923 Hitler made Schacht president of Reichmark. The holocaust started in 1933; Hjalmar Schacht was working for Hitler, he was very hostile towards Jews. Hjalmar Schacht was a collaborator. Schacht then went on to make speeches around the world about Jews, “the Jews must realize that their influence in Germany has disappeared for all time,” But in 1934 Schacht had a change of heart and gave the Jews a chance. He made an agreement that they can immigrate to Palestine for 15,000 Reich marks. 170,000 people took him up on his offer and within the next for years those people reached Palestine. In 1937 Schacht had a new job for Hitler, he was the minister of economics, but then in 1939 he resigned from the minister of economics and Hitler removed him from power. Then he went on to going around the world again and making more speeches but this time his speeches weren’t bad about the Jews he was now defending them. Through Hjalmar’s life he became nicer and nicer, he ended up a resister. In his speeches he talked about “unlawful activates against Jews.” He said that Jews fought bravely in the German war and in world war one. In 1944 he was arrested for being accused of being involved in the July plot to kill Hitler. He was sent to a concentration camp, but he is a survivor. They said he was not guilty but then they re-arrested and was charged with other offences. Hjalmar helped other governments stop bad habits but he died on June 4th 1970. I think that Hjalmar Schacht started as a collaborator because he was a member of Hitler’s group and assisted him with carrying out his plan to kill all the Jews, but then through the end he ended up as a resister. He opposed to the Nazis, he gave speeches telling people what was going on.