Hjalmar Schacht

Hjalmar Schacht, born Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (yes, really), was the financial wizard behind Germany's economic recovery in the 1930s. His ingenious schemes, like the MEFO bills, managed to rearm the nation while seemingly keeping the budget balanced. One might even say he made the trains run on time, if those trains were filled with munitions.

Though never a Nazi party member, Schacht's financial machinations were indispensable to Hitler's early successes. He was the architect of the economic boom that funded the Third Reich's initial expansion, making him, shall we say, a key enabler of unfathomable horror. Such