From the S&S archives:
Court is told some saw occupation of Germany by 'cowboys'

NURNBERG, April 17 — A witness at the denazification trial of financier Hjalmar Schacht testified yesterday that some Germans, upon losing the war, expected the U.S. to occupy the country "with cowboys."

Rudolf Diehls, former Prussian police official, described conversations he had with Hans Bernd Gisevius about the possibility of overthrowing Hitler.

Gisevius, who fled the Hitler regime and worked with the U.S. Intelligence in Switzerland, was quoted by Diehls as saying he knew about the occupation plans and that "literally, the regime of Americans would be cowboys."

Gisevius was a prime witness at the international tribunal's trial of high Nazis. His evidence was damaging to Goering and Keitel but helped to acquit Schacht because he spoke of the financier's link with underground efforts to overthrow the Nazis.

Diehls told the denazification court Schacht was never in favor of the Nazis.

The banker in 1938 was unaware, the witness said, of what criminal programs were to be evolved by Hitler, Himmler and the others.

"When Schacht found out what the real intentions were," he said, "he became an opponent and was not afraid to tell Hitler at times his opinions."