Hjalmar Schacht was one of the largest financiers of the Third Reich, a man with whose name many in Germany pinned their hopes for a stable life, and the one who provided the Nazis with the support of powerful financial and industrial circles on their way to power. Disillusioned with Hitler's policies, Schacht became involved in the July Plot against the Fuhrer, was arrested and kept in a concentration camp until the end of World War II. Shakht's memoirs are not only a description of the author's life, they are the thoughts of a brilliant financier about the features of his era. An excellent journalist and well-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, Millerand, Poincare, Hitler, Goering, Roosevelt and other major political and military figures.