Carefully measuring distance travelled each day, he mapped distances to the real-world geography. [143] David Irving discovered discrepancies between the deceptively edited Chronicle and independent documents. At the end of July 1942, a lack of fuel brought Paulus to a halt at Kalach. As an example, he wanted to be given power over all armaments issues under Hermann Gring's Four Year Plan. Germany's armaments production had already begun to result in increases under his predecessor, Todt. After the disasters of the battle of Moscow (Operation Typhoon) and even after Stalingrad Germany manages to greatly increase its military production, even though the allies were launching a major bombing campaign against them. This is followed by an epilogue dealing with the end of the war in Europe and the resulting Nuremberg trials, in which Speer was sentenced to a 20-year prison term for his actions during the war. Under Sereny's relentless questioning, Speer explored the past, trying to discover the truth which he had unconsciously kept hidden even from himself. Sereny decided to complete the book alone . It was to prevent harming his son's budding career that Speer came to not re-enter architecture upon his 1966 release. I recommend this book without reservations. Despite his opposition to the 20 July plot, he falsely claimed in his memoirs to have been sympathetic to the plotters. [5] Wolters and longtime Speer secretary Annemarie Kempf, while not permitted direct communication with Speer in Spandau, did what they could to help his family and carry out the requests Speer put in letters to his wifethe only written communication he was officially allowed. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/pr/; German: [pe] (listen); 19 March 1905 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. Speer's desperate mother called Speer . The journalist had unwittingly collaborated in one of his myths. [citation needed], At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his use of prisoners in the armaments factories while Minister of Armaments. [148] In October 1973, he made his first trip to Britain, flying to London to be interviewed on the BBC Midweek programme. [16][b] The same year, with stipends shrinking amid the Depression, Speer surrendered his position as Tessenow's assistant and moved to Mannheim, hoping to make a living as an architect. Na Nrnberkom procesu preuzeo je moralnu odgovornost za svoja djela te je priznao ignorantnost po pitanju Holokausta. The battle is infamous as one of the largest . [97] However, he concluded that the war was lost after Soviet forces captured the important Silesian industrial region later that month. Naval armaments were not under Speer's supervision until October 1943, nor the Luftwaffe's armaments until June of the following year. [104] During a meeting with Speer on 28/29 March, Hitler rescinded the decree and gave him authority over demolitions. - London, Anglia, 1981. szeptember 1.) Want to Read. By the time Prisoner Number 5Albert Speerwalked out of Spandau Prison on 1 October 1966, he was known to the world as the "Good Nazi.". [88] The SS provided 64,000 prisoners for 20 separate projects from various concentration camps including Mittelbau-Dora. Speer has paid his penance for his part of the inner circle and had come to the realization of Germany's reality during WWII. This miracle was brought to a halt in the summer of 1943 by, among other factors, the first sustained Allied bombing. [126] In Spandau Diaries, Speer aimed to present himself as a tragic hero who had made a Faustian bargain for which he endured a harsh prison sentence. Speer's joint undertaking with the SS leadership resulted in the creation of Mittelwerk (Central Works) for underground production of the V-2. [93] He opposed the assassination attempt against Hitler on 20 July 1944. His claim was revealed to be false in a private correspondence written in 1971 and publicly disclosed in 2007. Adam Tooze wrote in The Wages of Destruction that the idea that Speer was an apolitical technocrat was "absurd". From 1946 to 1966, while serving the sentence in Spandau Prison, he penned more than 2,000 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. [174], Speer did not deny being present at the Posen speeches to Nazi leaders at a conference in Posen (Pozna) on 6 October 1943, but claimed to have left the auditorium before Himmler said during his speech: "The grave decision had to be taken to cause this people to vanish from the earth",[175] and later, "The Jews must be exterminated". ", The main body of the book effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined Karl Dnitz's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's death. [121] There he was known as Prisoner Number Five. He was able to curtail the discussion that the war should be ended. [155] Speer was photographed with slave laborers at Mauthausen concentration camp during a visit on 31 March 1943; he also visited Gusen concentration camp. [177], The armaments "miracle" was a myth; Speer had used statistical manipulation to support his claims. Speer enthusiastically supported the program and in March 1942 made an order for A4 rockets, the predecessor of the world's first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket. After serving. Ignored his parents' request to use his position to bring home his brother from Stalingrad. One of Speer's grandfathers was among the most successful machine-tool manufacturers in Germany; the other was a well-known architect. Albert Speer Jr., one of the most important German architects and urban planners, died unexpectedly on September 15, 2017 in Frankfurt. A scene from 'Rise of the Nazis' Photo: 72 Films. [183], This article is about the Nazi minister. [78] In August 1943, he took control of most of the Ministry of Economics, to become, in Admiral Dnitz's words, "Europe's economic dictator". [111] Speer provided information to the Allies, regarding the effects of the air war, and on a broad range of subjects, beginning on 10 May. Profile manager: Gordon Becker [ send private message ] "[2] A review by Kirkus Reviews on 27 August 1970 stated, "Speer's portrayals of the Nazi leadership, of the constant intrigues and rivalries among Hitler's entourage, and of Hitler himself, his histrionic virulence, his banality, and his peculiar magic, are engrossing and revealing. [179], Little remains of Speer's personal architectural works, other than the plans and photographs. [136] Speer served a full term and was released at midnight on 1 October 1966. [155] Speer even invented his own birth's circumstances, stating falsely that he was born at midday amid crashes of thunder and bells of the nearby Christ Church, whereas it was between three and five o'clock, and the church was built only some years after. [138] He said little, reserving most comments for a major interview published in Der Spiegel in November 1966. [168] Speer also falsely claimed that he had realised the war was lost at an early stage, and thereafter worked to preserve the resources needed for the civilian population's survival. [173] In 2005, The Daily Telegraph reported that documents had surfaced indicating that Speer had approved the allocation of materials for the expansion of Auschwitz concentration camp after two of his assistants inspected the facility on a day when almost a thousand Jews were massacred. [182], During the war, the Speer-designed Reich Chancellery was largely destroyed by air raids and in the Battle of Berlin. [99] During January and February, Speer claimed that his ministry would deliver "decisive weapons" and a large increase in armaments production which would "bring about a dramatic change on the battlefield". [spouse (s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 1943 at about age 37 in Stalingrad, Russia. Hitler's cabinet was dismayed at his tactics, but, regardless, he was able to accumulate new responsibilities and more power. [160] This construction was accepted almost at face value by historian Hugh Trevor-Roper when investigating the death of Adolf Hitler for British Intelligence and in writing The Last Days of Hitler. After hearing Hitler speak at a Berlin . [5], Another kind of criticism is the claim that Speer pretended that he was unaware of the extermination camps and presented the figure of a "good Nazi". - London, 1. rujna 1981.) Figlio e nipote di architetti, Spee. Albert Speer, the Nazi architect who built a Cathedral of Light for Hitler and commanded millions of prisoners in the forced production of weaponry, had a comfortable second life. Albert Speer (Mannheim, Nmetorszg, 1905. mrcius 19. Speer cancelled some hours before take-off because the previous night he had been up late in a meeting with Hitler. sort by. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party, and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. [141] He found himself unable to re-establish a relationship with his children, even with his son Albert who had also become an architect. [14] The couple would have six children together, but Albert Speer grew increasingly distant from his family after 1933. [107] Speer visited the Fhrerbunker on 22 April for the last time. While dozens of submarines were built, few ever entered service. Before World War II, Speer helped propel the Nazi vision of grandeur and superiority. Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, who became Minister of Armaments and War Production in World War II, died today at St. Mary's Hospital. His sister's name was Carrie. Three days later, he also proposed to Hitler that Germany's remaining military resources be concentrated along the Rhine and Vistula rivers in an attempt to prolong the fighting. [45] Kristallnacht accelerated Speer's ongoing efforts to dispossess Berlin's Jews from their homes. The film began a process of demystification and critical reappraisal. Speer states that even if Germany concentrated all of its resources, it would have been 1947 before they could have had an atom bomb. Which he succeeded in doing, with or without Hitler. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich ." [165] Trommer said he was not an apolitical technocrat; instead, he was one of the most powerful and unscrupulous leaders in the Nazi regime. Efforts were made and a search of Ernst's unit ended in failure. [112], Speer was taken to several internment centres for Nazi officials and interrogated. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (/ p r /; German: [pe] (); 19 March 1905 - 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison.. An architect by training, Speer joined the . In her renowned biography, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, she describes her friend Schramm as "maybe the most moral person I have ever met". Sauckel had whole villages in France, Holland and Belgium forcibly rounded up and shipped to Speer's factories. [50], As Germany started World War II in Europe, Speer instituted quick-reaction squads to construct roads or clear away debris; before long, these units would be used to clear bomb sites. A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer (Rutger Hauer), Adolf Hitler's (Sir Derek Jacobi's) young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Study now. Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ( Mannheim, 19. oujka 1905. [64] Another factor that produced the boom in ammunition was the policy of allocating more coal to the steel industry. Speer was born in Mannheim, into an upper-middle-class family. FC Bayern Munich opens a new sports complex with a youth academy planned by AS+P. [67] With Hitler's full agreement, he decided to prioritize tank production, and he was given unrivaled power to ensure success. [152], After his release from Spandau, Speer portrayed himself as the "good Nazi". After the war, Speer was among the 24 "major war criminals" arrested and charged with the crimes of the Nazi regime at the Nuremberg trials. German architect of the Nazi period (1933-45). His father, who died in 1947, despised the Nazis and was silent upon meeting Hitler. His sentence of twenty years amounted to 7,305 days, which only allotted one and a half days per book. He remained so even after his release from imprisonment in 1966, despite their efforts to forge closer bonds. Detailed plans were completed in July 1937 and the first shell of the new chancellery was complete on 1 January 1938. These centered on a three-mile-long grand boulevard running from north to south, which Speer called the Prachtstrasse, or Street of Magnificence;[35] he also referred to it as the "NorthSouth Axis". The journalist described an invented scenario in which Speer had refused Hitler's orders and Hitler had left with tears in his eyes. [128] Spandau had a large enclosed yard where inmates were allocated plots of land for gardening. Russia in the battle for Stalingrad. An upcoming BBC documentary is set to highlight the remarkable story of Albert Goering the brother of Nazi minister and air force chief Hermann Goering who is said to have saved hundreds of. However, his other brother Ernst had died in the Battle of Stalingrad, despite repeated requests from his parents for Speer to repatriate him. He goes on to say that at the Nuremberg Trial he stated he "had to share the total responsibility for all that had happened", and that he "was inescapably contaminated morally". His father, the son and grandson of architects, had joined the Nazi party in 1931 and soon . von Speer, Albert: und eine groe Auswahl hnlicher Bcher, Kunst und Sammlerstcke erhltlich auf AbeBooks.de. He added a stone exterior that pleased Hitler. He took a role in that short-lived regime as Minister of Industry and Production. Albert Speer (n.Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, 19 martie 1905 d. 1 septembrie 1981) a fost un arhitect german care a fost, pentru o parte din al Doilea Rzboi Mondial, ministrul al narmrii i produciei de rzboi pentru al Treilea Reich.Speer a fost arhitectul preferat al lui Adolf Hitler, nainte de a ocupa posturi ministeriale.i-a asumat responsabilitatea pentru crimele . She was a kind and simple lady, living for her children. It is primarily based on the memoirs of Gertraud "Traudl" Junge ( Alexandra Maria Lara ), one of Hitler's secretaries, and is one of the most accurate portrayals of the last, desperate days of the Third Reich and its effects on the Fhrer, his closest aides, and ordinary Germans. Showing 28 distinct works. [77] By July 1943, he had gained control of armaments production for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine. [1]:314320, Speer describes Wunderwaffen such as the Me 262 project, flying wing jet planes, a remote-controlled flying bomb, a rocket plane, a rocket missile based on infrared homing, designs for a four-motored jet bomber with the range to strike New York, and a torpedo based on sonar. the atmosphere was said the best ever it was actually worded they Stalingrad was a classic example where he refused to provide the equipment necessary to supply his army on the Eastern front during the terrible winter of 1941. In February 1942, Speer was appointed as Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. When the commission was completed, Speer returned to Mannheim and remained there as Hitler took office in January1933. He continued to deny explicit knowledge of, and responsibility for the Holocaust. The film presents original videos from the Nazi Germany period and conversations with Speer, in which the great deception he tried to present at the Nuremberg trials and in his book is revealed.[6]. The concrete cylinder, 14 metres (46ft) high, was used to measure ground subsidence as part of feasibility studies for a massive triumphal arch and other large structures planned within Hitler's post-war renewal project for the city of Berlin as the world capital Germania. Speer was aided in shaping the works by Joachim Fest and Wolf Jobst Siedler from the publishing house Ullstein. Speer believed his greatest work, the one that would truly stand the test of time was the Zeppelinfeld in Nrnberg, which held up to 340,000 people, and the Cathedral of Lights he orchestrated for nighttime Nazi rallies with 130 anti-aircraft searchlights placed around it. Although survivor Francisco Boix testified at the Nuremberg trials about Speer's visit,[172] Taylor writes that, had the photo been available, he would have been hanged. [90] By this time, 140,000 people were working in Speer's underground factories. [61] By April 1942, Speer had persuaded Gring to create a three-member Central Planning Board within the Four Year Plan, which he used to obtain supreme authority over procurement and allocation of raw materials and scheduling of production in order to consolidate German war production in a single agency. [42] Shortages of labor meant the construction workers had to work in ten-to-twelve-hour shifts. The exterior walls survived, but they were eventually dismantled by the Soviets. Albert Speer (1905-1981) was a trained architect. Oil production became so low that any possibility of offensive action became impossible and weaponry lay idle. [3] Henry T. King, deputy prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials who later wrote a book about Speer said, "Love and warmth were lacking in the household of Speer's youth. Speer arrived there the previous evening and accepted Todt's offer to fly with him to Berlin. An architect by training, Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931. Albert Speer was a young architect initially seduced by the speeches and rhetoric of Hitler. [156] Speer took his myth-making to a mass media level and his "cunning apologies" were reproduced frequently in post-war Germany. He later published a work about Himmler and the SS which has been published in English as The Slave State: Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy or Infiltration: How Heinrich Himmler Schemed to Build an SS Industrial Empire (in German, Der Sklavenstaat - Meine Auseinandersetzung mit der SS). [29] Speer insisted that as many events as possible be held at night, both to give greater prominence to his lighting effects and to hide the overweight Nazis. The program while advanced proved to be an impediment to the war economy. by. [69], As head of Organisation Todt, Speer was directly involved in the construction and alteration of concentration camps. [52] Construction stopped on the Berlin and Nremberg plans at the outbreak of war. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest. The relationship was frowned upon by Speer's class-conscious mother, who felt the Webers were socially inferior. Through his autobiographies and interviews, Speer carefully constructed an image of himself as a man who deeply regretted having failed to discover the monstrous crimes of the Third Reich. This image dominated his historiography in the decades following the war, giving rise to the "Speer Myth": the perception of him as an apolitical technocrat responsible for revolutionizing the German war machine. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer. According to Speer's daughter Hilde Schramm, "One by one my sister and brothers gave up. Speer states he became hopeful when Hitler explained how communism could be checked and Germany could recover economically. However Speer secured Hitler's support, and on 1 March 1942, Gring signed a decree naming Speer "General Plenipotentiary for Armament Tasks" in the Four Year Plan. Those who feigned illness, slacked off, sabotaged production or tried to escape were denied food or sent to concentration camps. Finally, Speer states, "Because I failed at the time, I still feel, to this day, responsible for Auschwitz in a wholly personal sense. In consequence, despite tank production having the highest priority, relatively little of the armaments budget was spent on it. William. [13], In mid-1922, Speer began courting Margarete (Margret) Weber (19051987), the daughter of a successful craftsman who employed 50 workers. [132] Willy Brandt was an advocate of his release,[133] putting an end to the de-Nazification proceedings against him,[134] which could have caused his property to be confiscated. [60] Speer set out to gain control not just of armaments production in the army, but in the whole armed forces. [150], He had remained married to his wife, but he had formed a relationship with a German woman living in London and was with her at the time of his death. Albert Speer ( 19. bezna 1905 Mannheim - 1. z 1981 Londn ), celm jmnem Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, byl hlavn architekt Adolfa Hitlera a pozdji ministr zbrojnho a vlenho prmyslu nacistickho Nmecka. [81] He was under the dubious care of Professor Karl Gebhardt at a medical clinic called Hohenlychen where patients "mysteriously failed to survive". The houses still look very much the same. [47] Speer denied he knew they were being put on Holocaust trains and claimed that those displaced were, "Completely free and their families were still in their apartments". Ernst Speer. by PanzerKavallerie 27 Jul 2005, 07:49, Post Inside the Third Reich (German: Erinnerungen, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. [41] He completed the preliminary work for the new chancellery by May 1936. [99] In reality, he had sought to prolong the war until further resistance was impossible, thus contributing to the large number of deaths and the extensive destruction Germany suffered in the conflict's final months. [34] Hitler ordered Speer to develop plans to rebuild Berlin. [83] His political rivals used the opportunity to undermine his authority and damage his reputation with Hitler. "It is not charity; I don't like that . Speer's Heidelberg school offered rugby football, unusual for Germany, skiing, and Speer was a participant. The second season of the PBS series looks at Hitler's planning and the battle that would ultimately cripple the Third Reich. 1971. "[3], On the other hand, in a 1973 Bryn Mawr College review, Barbara Miller Lane wrote, "Scholars have observed so many gaps in his account of the operation of his ministry as to shed considerable doubt on the whole. The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. by Durand 27 Jul 2005, 14:18, Post [56] Hitler appointed Speer in Todt's place. He set about extending his power and influence with unexpected ambition. [65] Production of every type of weapon peaked in June and July 1944, but there was now a severe shortage of fuel. In 1942, he was named Minister of Armaments and Munitions, assuming significant responsibility for the German war economy. Neither the organizers nor Rudolf Hess were willing to decide whether to approve the plans, and Hess sent Speer to Hitler's Munich apartment to seek his approval. [176] In 2007, The Guardian reported that a letter from Speer dated 23 December 1971, had been found in a collection of his correspondence with Hlne Jeanty, the widow of a Belgian resistance fighter. Another myth posits that Speer revolutionized the German war machine after his appointment as Minister of Armaments. The house had a studio were Hitler (see Hitler parents) often came to draw his . Ultimately, when their emergence involved the ruin of all his work, Speer accepted the consequences and acted. [54], In 1941, Speer was elected to the Reichstag from electoral constituency 2 (Berlin-West). [163] By 1999, historians had amply demonstrated that Speer had lied extensively. [26], The image of the good Nazi was supported by numerous Speer myths. This ignored military realities, as the German armed forces were unable to match the Allies' firepower and were facing total defeat. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. Importantly, he provided an alibi to older Germans who had been Nazis. After he failed to do so, his father gave him a part-time job as manager of his properties. [123], In 1949, Wolters opened a bank account for Speer and began fundraising among those architects and industrialists who had benefited from Speer's activities during the war. [6] He followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and studied architecture. [28], One of Speer's first commissions after Troost's death was the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg. He coveted control of the production of armaments for the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine as well. happened. [81], In response to the Allied Big Week, Adolf Hitler authorized the creation of a Fighter Staff committee. he is one of Germany's top architects. [118] On 1 October 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. A speech by Albert Speer (there is an account of this speech in Albert Speer, Erinnerungen [Berlin, 1969], p. 325) was followed by speeches of his deputies: Willy Schliecker, the expert on American rearmament; Walther Rohland, the head of Panzer production; Karl Frydag, who was in charge of aircraft building; and Otto Merker, who was . Under his leadership, the Nazis implemented a brutal regime of slave labour in armaments factories across Germany. [149] In the same year, he appeared on the television programme The World at War. This led to the development of Germany's first cyclotron. First Architect of the Third Reich. [39], Plans to build a new Reich chancellery had been underway since 1934. I was searching for information about Ernst (?) A brick factory was built near the Oranienburg concentration camp at Speer's behest; when someone commented on the poor conditions there, Speer stated, "The Yids got used to making bricks while in Egyptian captivity". Inside the Third Reich begins with an account of Speer's childhood, followed by a description of his role as Heinrich Tessenow's assistant at the Technical University of Berlin. The relationship will always amaze. I myself must carry this out. Speer in response used his propaganda expertise to display a new dynamism of the war economy. By the autumn of 1942 however, the estimated period for developing a weapon had increased to three to four years, much too long to affect the war. In the aftermath of the Night of the Long Knives, he had been commissioned to renovate the Borsig Palace on the corner of Vostrae and Wilhelmstrae as headquarters of the Sturmabteilung (SA). [135] Speer's efforts for an early release came to naught. 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