Hjalmar Schacht is one of the largest financiers of the Third Reich, a man with whose name many in Germany associated their hopes for a stable life, and one who provided the Nazis on their way to power with the support of powerful financial and industrial circles. Disillusioned with Hitler's policy, Schacht was involved in the July conspiracy against the Fuhrer, was arrested and held in a concentration camp until the end of World War II. Schacht's memoirs are not only a description of the author's life, they are the thoughts of a brilliant financier about the peculiarities of his era. An excellent journalist and a widely educated person, Schacht vividly and vividly describes the events in which he took part and the people with whom fate brought him together. Among them are Bismarck, Milleran, Poincaré, Hitler, Goering, Roosevelt and other major political and military figures.